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When hosting WebApi is IIS, you have access to HttpContext and can use the items collection to store objects for a single HTTP request.
When self hosting, you no longer have a HttpContext, so what can I use to store an object for a single request ?
Obviously, there is no direct equivalent of System.Web’s HttpContext in self-host.
However, if you wish to start info for the single request, then each HttpRequestMessage exposes a dictionary of <string,object>, called
Properties– http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.httprequestmessage.properties.aspx which you can use to i.e. transport data between handlers, filters, binders and so on.