Question

I’m having a situation that is getting kind of annoying with asp.net web api. The thing is i have an API which is already in production, however I’m constantly making changing and deploying again.

I have a filter, which takes care of checking if the request is https, that works awesome on production, but when requests are local the filter blocks all http requests, which is not what I want. I would like to allow local requests with http. I have a filter which does the exact same thing on MVC3, and I can do something like:

filterContext.HttpContext.Request.IsLocal

Is there any work around to this problem?

Answer 1

if you are using webhost i.e hosting webapi in asp.net, you can access the HttpContext using

HttpContextBase httpContextBase;
request.Properties.TryGetValue("MS_HttpContext", out httpContextBase);

You can then use httpContextBase.Request.IsLocal to determine if the request is local.