Intercept all WebApi calls before the route matching occurs

Question

I am looking for a way to intercept/grab the request being made before matching to a route. For example, I have multiple controllers and routes set up, but I want some mecha

Answer 1

Would it work to create a HttpHandler (or do it just in Global asax Application_BeginRequest event) to capture the requests and inside the handler parse the URL against route config, similar to this link.