k web and k kestrel should give the url/port on the command line

[sayedihashimi]

Today when k web or k kestrel are invoked the default output is simply Started. It would be much better to include the url/port which was just started. W/o this users will need to look into project.json to figure out the port number.

[Tratcher]

RE: aspnet/HttpSysServer#74 (private).

It doesn't print this today because Hosting doesn't know, only WebListener/Kestrel knows, and WebListener shouldn't be doing random Console.WriteLine's.

[sayedihashimi]

What about the commands themselves? Can the printout they printout the arguments?

[nyxtom]

While I agree that WebListener/Kestrel shouldn't be doing random Console.Writelines. There should be a consensus on at the very least logging this information. At which point it would be useful to simply redirect the logging to standard output or wherever else we wish to choose. Right now the current setup is very inflexible and doesn't give you much verbosity in terms of logging information.

[Tratcher]

That is the current proposal: The servers should "...log the addresses at startup as Informational, and the console logger will display it by default."

[sayedihashimi]

It doesn't look like this is getting any attention.

@glennc should I close this item?

[Tratcher]

It's happening, we just needed to do some work on the console logger first to make the output legible. aspnet/Logging#70

[glennc]

This has been done, you can see the url and port if you have a console logger attached, which the default template does.

[flyandi]

Can someone explain why everything with Microsoft has to be so complicated. Why not just add a flag to see directly the console output or someone could just post a full description instead of cryptic answers. Lot's of people have issue and there is barely documentation available and people land here and find an uncompleted answer. You can't expect that everyone is involved in the core development of ASP.NET 5.0. Although promising it has been more than frustrating so far.