Using the repro form Alexandr Nikitin, I was able to discover that this seems to happen ONLY when you have HttpClient be a short lived object. If you make the handler and client long lived this does not seem to happen:
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace HttpClientMemoryLeak
{
using System.Net;
using System.Threading;
class Program
{
static HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
private static HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);
public static async Task TestMethod()
{
try
{
using (var response = await client.PutAsync("http://localhost/any/url", null))
{
}
}
catch
{
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++)
{
Thread.Sleep(10);
TestMethod();
}
Console.WriteLine("Finished!");
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}