WCF Rest vs WebAPi

Question

One of the difference which I read is "Unlike WCF Rest we can use full features of HTTP in Web API"

WebApi and wcf rest both uses Http only but I am not sure what do we mean by full features of Http here. What are the Http features which are available in webApi but not in wcf rest.

Could somebody explain please.

Answer 1

I think WebAPI is better than WCF because of some points of HTTP features:

• Support many formats: JSON, XML, Text, binary, ...

• Can customize Header and Body

• Easy to custom URL

• Simpler and faster (WCF is SOAP-based service)

• Support many HTTP Status codes

• Support multiple devices because the simple response and easy to customize for small devices like phone