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

Question

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

For example, if the service interface is like

[OperationContract]
[WebGet(UriTemplate         


        

Answer 1

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.