C# How to set HttpClient Keep-Alive to false

Question

I had a low performance problem with HTTP requests on .NET. The HTTP GET request to a REST API on the localhost took about 500 ms to complete. I spent a lot of time to fix i

Answer 1

When you set HttpWebRequest.KeepAlive = true the header set is Connection: keep-alive

When you set HttpWebRequest.KeepAlive = false the header set is Connection: close

So you will need

_http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Connection", "close");