Expose Socket via a Kestrel ConnectionContext feature

[halter73]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We should make it so you don't have to resort to something like the following to access the managed Socket if you really want to.

var socket = (Socket)connectionContext.GetType().GetField("_socket", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(connectionContext);

Proposed API

using System.Net.Sockets;

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Connections.Features
{
+    public interface IConnectionSocketFeature
+   {
+        Socket? Socket { get; }
+    }
}

Usage Examples

var socket = connectionContext.Features.Get<IConnectionSocketFeature>().Socket;

[ghost]

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[BrennanConroy]

What are examples of usage for this? What settings do you want after creation of the socket?

[BrennanConroy]

What are examples of usage for this?

Force a reset.

[davidfowl]

Another use case that came up last week was the ability to get tcp information via a new ioctl SIO_TCP_INFO https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winsock/sio-tcp-info.

[pranavkm]

Proposed API

using System.Net.Sockets;

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Connections.Features
{
+    public interface IConnectionSocketFeature
+   {
+        Socket Socket { get; }
+    }
}

Usage Examples

var socket = connectionContext.Features.Get<IConnectionSocketFeature>()?.Socket;
if (socket is not null)