System.Net.ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit and .MaxServicePointIdleTime
When would you need to adjust these two settings (below)? And what do these two numbers mean for HttpWebRequest instances that I make?
rest
ServiceStack REST API path variables from root throwing exception
I am trying to write a REST web service using ServiceStack that accepts variable paths off of route. For example:
Origin http://localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin
I’m trying to call a webservice from my local machine. But the I get the following errors in Chrome console:
http://www.test.com/service.svc/api/?cid=1 405 (Method Not Allowed)
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.test.com/service.svc/api/?cid=1.
Origin http://localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
REST verbs – which convention is “correct”
I’m well into implementing a REST service (on a Windows CE platform if that matters) and I started out using IBM’s general definitions of using POST for creating (INSERTs) and PUT for updating.
using asp.net mvc for REST based endpoint
I’m looking at using ASP.Net MVC as a platform for a REST based Service. I know WCF has built in support for REST services; however, I’m looking at returning multiple types of data depending on the request.
Is it possible to use an external Identity Provider in a Web API with ASP.NET 5?
Reading this question, @Pinpoint’s answer and the further discussion on comments, I’m well aware that natively we can’t add an identity provider to our apps developed with ASP.NET 5. One possible replacement for the legacy OAuthAuthorizationServerMiddleware is then provided by the AspNet.Security.OpenIdConnect.Server as I’ve found in many places.
POST data from Android to Web API returns 404
I’m trying to send data from my Android client as a POST request to my Web API Backend but it returns a 404 response code. Here’s my code:
Implementing Google transliterate API using REST and C#, facing unicode and parsing issues
I have been trying to use Google Transliterate API using the RESTful approach as its easy to do so through server side language (C# here).
Read Request Body in ASP.NET
How does one read the request body in ASP.NET? I’m using the REST Client add-on for Firefox to form a GET request for a resource on a site I’m hosting locally, and in the Request Body I’m just putting the string “test” to try to read it on the server.
REST webapi URI GET with string instead of id not routing as expected
I have the following example where the request is http://{domain}/api/foo/{username} but I get a 404 status code back. No other Get actions exist on this controller. Shouldn’t this work?