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title: "Web API Routing | Microsoft Docs"
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description: "How ASP.NET Web API routes HTTP requests to controllers and actions."
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ms.date: 01/26/2012
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Web API Routing
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> How ASP.NET Web API routes HTTP requests to controllers and actions.


- [Routing in Web API](routing-in-aspnet-web-api.md)
- [Routing and Action Selection in Web API](routing-and-action-selection.md)
- [Attribute Routing in Web API 2](attribute-routing-in-web-api-2.md)
- [Create a REST API with Attribute Routing in Web API 2](create-a-rest-api-with-attribute-routing.md)