Many applications used new HttpClient() per request. That looks harmless, but each HttpClient has its own connection pool. Creating and disposing clients repeatedly can drive port exhaustion under ...

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The .NET Core ecosystem provides two potent features that can help us overcome these challenges - HttpClientFactory and DelegatingHandler. HttpClientFactory manages HttpClient instances efficiently, ...

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Using a single HttpClient in this way will keep connections open and not respect the DNS Time To Live (TTL) setting. Now the connections will never get DNS updates so the server you are talking to ...

When working in applications in ASP.NET Core you might often need to invoke the Web API action methods using HttpClient to check if the endpoints are working fine. To achieve this, you would typically ...

It's not impossible that you're accessing several different methods from the same Web Service in your application. If so, and if you're using the HttpClientFactory (and you should be), you have an ...

There's a very good chance that, every time you need to access a Web Service, you've been creating an HttpClient object and then throwing it away. Unfortunately, that's bad for your application ...

You can take advantage of HttpClientFactory to preconfigure named HttpClient instances. Note that the HttpClientFactory is a central location that can be used to register, configure, and consume ...

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