In the previous post in this series, I introduced the concept of outgoing middleware using DelegatingHandlers registered with named and typed clients. While that approach is available, the ASP.NET team hope that for most scenarios, we won’t need to resort to manually building our own handlers. In some cases, the built-in features of the library […]
Tag: HttpClientFactory
HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 3) Outgoing request middleware with handlers.
In my previous posts in this series (An Introduction to HttpClientFactory and Defining Named and Typed Clients) I introduced some core concepts and then showed some examples of using the new IHttpClientFactory feature in ASP.NET Core 2.1. It’s been a while since those first two posts but I’d like to continue this series by looking […]
HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 2) Defining Named and Typed Clients
In my last post – An introduction to HttpClientFactory – I explained some of the reasons behind the creation of the feature. We looked at what problems it helps solve and then followed a very basic example showing how it can be used in a WebAPI application. In this post I want to dive into […]
HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 1) An Introduction to HttpClientFactory
TL;DR; A new HttpClientFactory feature is coming in ASP.NET Core 2.1 which helps to solve some common problems that developers may run into when using HttpClient instances to make external web requests from their applications. Introduction This blog post has been in the works since mid-October 2017, which was when I first noticed the new […]