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Asked: 2026-05-21T12:41:27+00:00

I know that similar question was asked here : Running SOAP and RESTful on

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I know that similar question was asked here :

Running SOAP and RESTful on the same URL

Hosting WCF soap and rest endpoints side by side

but didn’t find an answer to my problem.

I have two custom servicehostfactories that enables Dependency Injection : 

public class StructureMapSoapServiceHostFactory : ServiceHostFactory 
public class StructureMapRestServiceHostFactory : WebServiceHost2Factory

The implementation details are not important here.

Then I definied two endpoints in web.config

<system.serviceModel>
    <behaviors>
   <serviceBehaviors>
    <behavior name="mexGet">
      <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
      <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
    </behavior>
   </serviceBehaviors>
  <endpointBehaviors>
    <behavior name="jsonBehavior">
      <webHttp/>
    </behavior>
  </endpointBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<bindings>
  <mexHttpBinding>
    <binding name="mexHttpBinding" />
  </mexHttpBinding>
</bindings>
      <services>
     <service behaviorConfiguration="mexGet" name="ServiceImplementation.ServiceCategory">
        <endpoint address="rest" 
                  binding="webHttpBinding" 
                  contract="Contracts.ServiceContracts.Mobile.IServiceCategory"
                  behaviorConfiguration ="jsonBehavior"/>
        <endpoint address="soap"
                  binding="basicHttpBinding"
                  contract="Contracts.ServiceContracts.Mobile.IServiceCategory" />
        <endpoint name="mexHttpBinding"
                  address="mex"
                  binding="mexHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="mexHttpBinding"
                  contract="IMetadataExchange" />
     </service>
  </services>
<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>

Then I created two .svc files for each custom host factories :
ServiceCategoryRest.svc
ServiceCategorySoap.svc

I don’t like it. What I would like to do is to have URL in that style :

REST : http://server:port/rest/categories/{id} which mapps to the implementation of my ServiceCategory.GetCategory(int id)

SOAP : http://server:port/soap/GetCategory?id=someId

My questions are. Do i need different svc files to activate host services ? If I need there two .svc files, how can I achieve the URI above ? I’m afraid that I should configure IIS rewriting or something but would like to avoid that.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Thomas

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  1. Editorial Team

    After few searches I found out that in fact I don’t need two different .svc files and two different ServiceHostFactories.

    I kept only the StructureMapRestServiceHostFactory : WebServiceHost2Factory and ServiceCategoryRest.svc which handles well requests in REST mode and call in RPC-SOAP mode.

    So if you want to run side by side the REST and the SOAP you can do it only with WebServiceHost2Factory.

    If then you want to get rid of the .svc part from the URL, please read the Rick Strahl post west-wind.com/weblog/posts/570695.aspx.

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