HttpClientFactory.Create vs new HttpClient

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The factory is helper method to assist in the creation of a client when you have more than one DelegatingHandler in the pipeine. Delegating handlers need to be connected together to form a pipeline. This factory allows you to pass the handlers in as an array and the factory will take care of connecting them together.

I believe, and don’t take my word for it, that the CreatePipeline method may be used over on the server side to build the message handling pipeline for a Web API HttpServer.

I’m happy you are not seeing many examples of using blocks around HTTPClient as I have been fighting against this practice for what feels like years. Although HttpClient does implement disposable it only does it to handle exceptions scenarios where it gets destroyed while a request is ongoing. HttpClient instances should be long lived. Disposing them forcibly closes the underlying TCP connection that is supposed to be pooled. HttpClient is thread safe and can be safely used many times by different threads. That’s how it is intended to be used, not the single use, using block pattern that I see regularly.

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