Eric Vogel covers how to use the new Web API 2 routing attributes to create a Web service in Part 1 of this series.

Flexible RESTful API design So, we have seen in this RESTful APIs tutorial that the removal of the 10 oldest records from a database is a poor use of the DELETE method, and the incrementation of a ...

You should use the PUT method only when you would like to replace the resource in its entirety.