In the previous post in my demystifying HttpClient series, I looked at the internals of HttpRequestMessage. I want to continue the series by investigating the HttpResponseMessage. This class is mostly a property holder, with little internal logic but there are a few behaviours and best practices to watch out for. If you’ve read my previous […]
Demystifying HttpClient Internals: HttpRequestMessage A look at the internals of HttpRequestMessage
Anyone who regularly works with HttpClient will have likely have also used the HttpRequestMessage class. While HttpClient supports some convenience methods for quick actions such as sending a GET request; once you have more complex requirements, such a needing to include headers on the request, you will need to use HttpClient.SendAsync which accepts a HttpRequestMessage. […]
Demystifying HttpClient Internals Exploring the SendAsync Flow
I’ve written a few blog posts about HttpClientFactory and HttpClient and these are proving popular topics. There exists some confusion about how HttpClient should be used and there is a degree of mystery around how it actually works. In this post, I want to begin a potential series where we will explore the internals of […]
Campaigning for a .NET Foundation Board Seat
Please excuse me for interrupting the normally educational and generally technical .NET content for a short announcement! I’m running for a seat on the board of directors of the .NET Foundation!!! It feels a bit mad even as I type that sentence and I won’t lie and it cranks my impostor syndrome up to level […]
An Early Look at gRPC and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Creating an ASP.NET Core 3.0 gRPC client and server
In this post, I want to introduce my very early experience (after a few hours of experimentation) of gRPC and ASP.NET Core 3.0. I’ve conducted some experiments as part of our quarterly Madgex hack day. This will be an introductory post so I don’t expect to show everything in fine detail. This is intended to […]