HTTP Trace was never so easy
So there I was, sitting at my PC hunting some bugs when up pops John Sheehan on IM and starts asking me questions about OPTIONS and TRACE http methods. I pretty much always have the HTTP spec close at hand so I think I was able to at least fake some prior knowledge in attempting to answer his questions. As the discussion continued it started to pique my interest in TRACE. I have been meaning to look into this this obscure HTTP method for some time but have just never got around to it.
The world’s simplest WCF Web API
We all have to start somewhere, and I like to start with the simplest possible thing that works. So I created a Console application and used NuGet to pull in the WebAPI.All package which contains all my dependencies.[1]
Web APIs: Don’t be a victim of your success.
It seems everyone these days wants an API for their web application. Getting a primitive Web API up and running can be deceptively simple. However, what many people don’t realize is that with the success of an API can come a variety of problems.