How and is it possible to have one Mvc and one webapi project operating under same domain name

Question

I have two separate projects

http://www.local.mysite.com (mvc websites) http://api.mysite.com (webapi)

I'd like to avoid using CORS, (currently required for my web ajax calls) (as they are across origin).

So could I in theory, host the webapi under the same domain, using a suffix:

http://www.local.mysite.com/api ? (with an IIS binding to this for the api)

Would this work? My concern is the Mvc website will intercept the requests also, or that maybe it is a bit dodgey.

Answer 1

CORS is involved when you're making Ajax call cross-origin. Origin is defined by 1) host, 2) port, and 3) protocol.

Here's a good article that discusses the protocol:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn532203.aspx