I have a WCF REST 4.0 project based on the the WCF REST Service Template 40(CS). I\'d like to expose simple service endpoint URLs without trailing slashes. For example:
I was dealing with this exact problem and ran across this snippet in the MS online docs:
By default, routing does not handle requests that map to an existing physical file on the Web server. For example, a request for http://server/application/Products/Beverages/Coffee.aspx is not handled by routing if a physical file exists at Products/Beverages/Coffee.aspx. Routing does not handle the request even if it matches a defined pattern, such as {controller}/{action}/{id}.
I realized that my route pattern matched the directory my service was hosted in. It appears that a directory is treated the same as a physical file, and route patterns that match a directory are ignored as well. So following the documentation, I set the RouteExistingFiles property to "true" on the RouteCollection. My service now seems to be routing the requests correctly and I've been able to keep the REST syntax that I love so very very much.