Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter’s topics with deeper research.

Exercise 13.1 – online material

Online material could be material created by Microsoft or third parties, or extra content for this book.

Configuring services and the HTTP request pipeline

This online section reviews how services and the HTTP request pipeline work in more detail:

https://github.com/markjprice/cs13net9/blob/main/docs/ch13-http-pipeline.md

Enabling HTTP/3 and request decompression support

HTTP/3 brings benefits to all internet-connected apps, but especially mobile. I have written an online-only section introducing HTTP/3 and showing how to enable it in an ASP.NET Core project like Northwind.Web when targeting .NET 7 or later.

In previews of .NET 8, HTTP/3 was enabled by default, but the Microsoft team decided to revert to disabling HTTP/3 by default...