WebApi v2 ExceptionHandler not called

Question

How comes that a custom ExceptionHandler is never called and instead a standard response (not the one I want) is returned?

Registered like this

Answer 1

The real culprit here is CorsMessageHandler inserted by EnableCors method in message processing pipline. The catch block intercept any exception and convert into a response before it can reach the HTTPServer try-catch block and ExceptionHandler logic can be invoked

protected override async Task SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    CorsRequestContext corsRequestContext = request.GetCorsRequestContext();
    HttpResponseMessage result;
    if (corsRequestContext != null)
    {
    try
    {
        if (corsRequestContext.IsPreflight)
        {
        result = await this.HandleCorsPreflightRequestAsync(request, corsRequestContext, cancellationToken);
        return result;
        }
        result = await this.HandleCorsRequestAsync(request, corsRequestContext, cancellationToken);
        return result;
    }
    catch (Exception exception)
    {
        result = CorsMessageHandler.HandleException(request, exception);
        return result;
    }
    }
    result = await this.<>n__FabricatedMethod3(request, cancellationToken);
    return result;
}