Type of issue

Missing information

Description

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/httpclient-factory

   The code examples in this article dispose the HttpClient returned from httpClientFactory.CreateClient(), and it says

   Disposing of such HttpClient instances created by the factory will not lead to socket exhaustion...

2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/http-requests?view=aspnetcore-9.0&preserve-view=true#httpclient-and-lifetime-management

   The code example in this article not dispose the HttpClient returned from httpClientFactory.CreateClient(), and it says

   HttpClient instances can generally be treated as .NET objects not requiring disposal...

3. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.http.ihttpclientfactory.createclient?view=net-9.0-pp#remarks

   The remark says

   It is generally not necessary to dispose of the HttpClient as the IHttpClientFactory tracks and disposes resources used by the HttpClient

So shall we dispose the HttpClient returned by httpClientFactory.CreateClient()?

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/httpclient-factory

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/core/extensions/httpclient-factory.md

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Platform Id

c667850f-a5ec-d80b-d8af-0c1c1e37e599

Article author

@IEvangelist

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