Recent ASP.NET Web API Updates – April 24

Recent ASP.NET Web API Updates – April 24: Here’s a few updates coming your way in ASP.NET Web API. The code has been checked into our CodePlex source code repository but haven’t yet been released as part of our official installer . Think of this as a sneak-peak for you to try out and comment on as part of our source code repository (see Getting Started With ASP.NET Web Stack Source on CodePlex for details). Cookie Support Until now the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie headers were only exposed as raw strings and not structured classes in the HttpRequestMessage and HttpResponseMessage classes. This made it cumbersome and error prone to work with cookies in ASP.NET Web API. To fix this we introduced two new classes called CookieHeaderValue and CookieState that follow the RFC 6265 HTTP State...(read more)