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C# – Configuring HttpClient connection keep-alive

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When you use a single instance of HttpClient to send requests, it keeps connections open in order to speed up future requests. By default, idle connections are closed after 2 minutes, and otherwise will be kept open forever (in theory). In reality, the connection can be closed by the server-side (or other external factors) regardless … Read more

C# – How to make concurrent requests with HttpClient

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The HttpClient class was designed to be used concurrently. It’s thread-safe and can handle multiple requests. You can fire off multiple requests from the same thread and await all of the responses, or fire off requests from multiple threads. No matter what the scenario, HttpClient was built to handle concurrent requests. To use HttpClient effectively … Read more