WCF: System.Net.SocketException - Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted

Question

I have a WCF service and a Web application. Web application makes calls to this WCF service in a continous manner a.k.a polling. In our production environment, I receive thi

Answer 1

HttpClient, although it implements IDisposable is a shared object, you should reduce the number of instances as much as possible. You can get away with only having one instance for the entire lifetime of your application rather than one for each request.

I wrote about it pretty extensively at http://aspnetmonsters.com/2016/08/2016-08-27-httpclientwrong/