ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

There are two ways in which you can inject logic in the request pipeline of an ASP.NET application — HttpHandlers and HttpModules. An HttpModule is a component that is part of the ASP.NET request ...

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.