#96 Steve Gordon, Http Client Factory in .NET Core 2.1

Steve Gordon and I talk about the new Http Client Factory in .Net Core 2.1. We cover what's new, what's different and how to use Polly, the .NET resilience framework with it.

Who he is, what he does, meetup group, Humanitarian Toolbox. What is wrong with Http Client, exhausting sockets; using a singleton, DNS problems. Http Client Factory, creates a client pool, using DI to create the clients, named and typed clients, testing. Http Client Handlers. Using Polly with Http Client, differentiating between policies for a given endpoint, wrapping, calling delegates.

Steve's homepage

Steve's series on Http Client Factory.
Steve's twitter

Steve's MS Doc's page

Scott Hanselman's post on Http Client Factory.

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