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OWIN stands for The Open Web Interface for .NET. It is a standard for communication between .NET web servers and web applications. It defines required elements for HTTP request. It is inspired by Rack from Ruby on Rails World. Katana is implementation of this standard. We can say that it is a lightweight web server for .NET. In fact, it is more than that.

Stop me if you know this one. You find a library/framework that does some­thing use­ful to you. You start using it and then realise it doesn’t work the way you want it in cer­tain sce­nario or has a miss­ing feature. What do you do then?Aban­don the library and look for alter­na­tive that is more “fea­ture rich”? Ask the author to sup­port your scenario/submit a pull request with the feature? Those two, from my expe­ri­ence, a...