I am trying to implement web sockets in my application that currently implements a RESTful web API. I want certain pieces of information to be able to be exposed by a web socket connection so I am trying to figure out how to upgrade a normal HTTP request to a web socket connection.

I am trying to follow this tutorial

The problem I am having is my controller that handles the Get request inherits from ApiController and I am trying to do this:

 if (HttpContext.Current.IsWebSocketRequest)
    {
        HttpContext.Current.AcceptWebSocketRequest(SomeFunction);
    }
    return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.SwitchingProtocols);

The problem is my HttpContext.Current is always null and I do not know why. It seems like there is no such thing as a HttpContext. I do see however from the request that comes in that their is a HttpRequestContext that comes in with the request. Are these two objects related at all and is there any way I can get access to the .IsWebSocketRequest method so I can try and upgrade the request to a web socket connection?

My controller and what I am trying to do:

    [HttpGet]
    public HttpResponseMessage GetSomething()    
    {
        if (HttpContext.Current.IsWebSocketRequest()){
             Console.WriteLine("web socket request..");  
        }
    }

^ HttpContext.Current is always null. My controller inherits solely from ApiController