HttpWebRequest support for named pipes?

To all the .NET experts, I have a question for you.

I need to do SOAP/HTTP over named pipes on Windows, in C#. (This is for a client talking to a Python library/server using SOAP for RPC. Using socket/port was deemed both insecure, and port configuration becomes a hassle.) There are two problems.

1. There is an HttpWebRequest class, but it only supports http URI’s. I can’t find any easy way to change it to support named pipes. Any ideas?

   In theory, I could subclass WebRequest, but I don't want to have to rewrite all of the HTTP protocol in C# just to get named pipe support.

2. There is a PipeStream class, but it is only supported on .NET 3.5 and above. My stuff has to work with .NET 2.0….

I tried searching on google and on this site. There are very few hits (actually, no relevant ones) for HttpWebRequest in combination with na开发者_运维问答med pipes (though each topic by itself has lots of hits).

Any advice is appreciated, thanks.

Have you looked at Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)? That has support for NamedPipes as a transport for SOAP requests