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Within a Web API action, you can easily access the HttpContext via the HttpContext.Current thread static. Alternatively, you can also retrieve the context from one of the properties in the Request message. Code Snippet HttpContext context;...

With the newly released Web API Beta bits ( http://www.asp.net/web-api) , you can support multiple authentication from client. Say you want the client send both the username/password as well as Client Certificate for SSL. For the web hosted scenario...

When you choose to use Client Certificate as your client credential over SSL, you want to retrieve the x509 Certificate on the server side to do authorization. It is very simple with the latest Web API bits. If you have access to the request message anywhere...

Mike has wrote this really good blog on writing a custom HttpParameterBinding at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jmstall/archive/2012/05/11/webapi-parameter-binding-under-the-hood.aspx My blog just want to add a little bit complex example where you might...

For web hosted, you can access your client address via the following: Code Snippet string clientAddress = HttpContext .Current.Request.UserHostAddress; For self hosted, you can access your client address via the following: Code...

Web API provides some great out of box experience with parameter binding. It also provides some powerful extensibility points to allow you customize that binding process. For example, you can bind multiple parameters from uri. However, it can only bind...

Since we build web api self host story on top of WCF HttpTransportBindingElement, the multiple authentication is not support on WCF for 4.0. Here is the exception you will get if you tried to set the authentication scheme on httptransport binding element...

One of the most common exceptions you will hit when you first started with a SignalR chat program could look like the following: Unhandled exception at line 78, column 13 in http://localhost:53632/home/chat 0x800a138f - JavaScript runtime error: Unable...

Sometimes you want to retrieve all the filters that one action supports, and you can do that via the following code snippet. Hope this helps. Code Snippet Collection < FilterInfo > filterInfoCollection = action.GetFilterPipeline(); ...

Watch Dan's talk on the newly released WebAPI Beta. It is very cool! http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Web+Camps+TV/Dan-Roth-on-the-new-ASPNET-Web-API The aspnet web api project can be found at http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/. A lot of new features...

When you are using WCF with client certificate over SSL in web hosted case, you might hit an exception like the following: [NotSupportedException: The SSL settings for the service 'SslRequireCert' does not match those of the IIS 'Ssl'.] System.ServiceModel...

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