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Morgan Cheng
Morgan Cheng

Reputation: 76008

How to remove the ".svc" extension in RESTful WCF service?

In my knowledge, the RESTful WCF still has ".svc" in its URL.

For example, if the service interface is like

[OperationContract]
[WebGet(UriTemplate = "/Value/{value}")]
string GetDataStr(string value);

The access URI is like "http://machinename/Service.svc/Value/2". In my understanding, part of REST advantage is that it can hide the implementation details. A RESTful URI like "http://machinename/Service/value/2" can be implemented by any RESTful framework, but a "http://machinename/Service.svc/value/2" exposes its implementation is WCF.

How can I remove this ".svc" host in the access URI?

Upvotes: 53

Views: 31127

Answers (7)

Kenneth
Kenneth

Reputation: 11

Add this to your global.asax

private void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Context.RewritePath(System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(
               Request.Path, "/rest/(.*)/", "/$1.svc/"));
}

This will replace /rest/Service1/arg1/arg2 by /Service1.svc/arg1/arg2

Upvotes: 1

Thiago Silva
Thiago Silva

Reputation: 17701

I know this post is a bit old now, but if you happen to be using .NET 4, you should look at using URL Routing (introduced in MVC, but brought into core ASP.NET).

In your app start (global.asax), just have the following route configuration line to setup the default route:

RouteTable.Routes.Add(new ServiceRoute("mysvc", new WebServiceHostFactory(), typeof(MyServiceClass)));

then your URLs would look like this: 

http://servername/mysvc/value/2

HTH

Upvotes: 47

Cheeso
Cheeso

Reputation: 192467

In IIS6 or 7, you can use IIRF, a free rewriting filter. Here's the rule I used: 

# Iirf.ini
#

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteLog  c:\inetpub\iirfLogs\iirf-v2.0.services
RewriteLogLevel 3
StatusInquiry  ON  RemoteOk
CondSubstringBackrefFlag *
MaxMatchCount 10

# remove the .svc tag from external URLs
RewriteRule  ^/services/([^/]+)(?<!\.svc)/(.*)$    /services/$1.svc/$2  [L]

Upvotes: 2

Jason Kresowaty
Jason Kresowaty

Reputation: 16500

There is also a way to eliminate the physical .svc files altogether. This can be done with a VirtualPathProvider.

See: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/350f2cb6-febd-4978-ae65-f79735d412db

Upvotes: 3

Rick Strahl
Rick Strahl

Reputation: 17651

Here's more detailed info using the IIS 7 Rewrite Module, or using a custom module: http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/570695.aspx

Upvotes: 4

Eran Kampf
Eran Kampf

Reputation: 8986

Its easy on IIS 7 - use a URL Rewrite Module

On IIS 6 I found its easiest to use the ISAPI Rewrite module which lets you define a set of regular expressions that map the request Urls to the .svc file...

Upvotes: 2

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038780

In IIS 7 you can use the Url Rewrite Module as explained in this blog post.

In IIS 6 you could write an http module that will rewrite the url:

public class RestModule : IHttpModule
{
    public void Dispose() { }

    public void Init(HttpApplication app)
    {
        app.BeginRequest += delegate
        {
            HttpContext ctx = HttpContext.Current;
            string path = ctx.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath;

            int i = path.IndexOf('/', 2);
            if (i > 0)
            {
                string svc = path.Substring(0, i) + ".svc";
                string rest = path.Substring(i, path.Length - i);
                ctx.RewritePath(svc, rest, ctx.Request.QueryString.ToString(), false);
            }
        };
    }
}

And there's a nice example how to achieve extensionless urls in IIS 6 without using third party ISAPI modules or wildcard mapping.

Upvotes: 31

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