Take advantage of a custom message handler to log request and response metadata in Web API for debugging, tracing, and inspection of the incoming and outgoing calls Like authentication, caching, and ...

When a request comes in to your ASP.NET site, it's routed through a series of message handlers (in ASP.NET Web API) or modules (in ASP.NET MVC), each of which performs some operation on the request.

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alex Walling in his ...

eBay's Web services API allows programs to search through on-line auctions, but only if the programmer doesn't get too frustrated first. During the past few months, we have looked at the Web services ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...