Hosting
In Chapter 1, Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API, we discussed the concept of a Host Listener. It listens for incoming requests, transforms them into an appropriate HttpRequestMessage, and then sends it through the Web API MessageHandler pipeline. The plug and play model of a Host Listener in the ASP.Net Web API provides considerable flexibility in determining how we want to host our Web API. There are two broad categories to host a Web API:
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Web or IIS hosting |
Web hosting refers to using the legacy ASP.NET pipeline in IIS for hosting the Web API. The |
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