Why is my Initial call in RestSharp really slow? but others after are very fast

Question

I am making calls to a WEB API using RESTSHARP and they work fine. However, the Initial call to the API (regardless of what call it is) can sometimes take up to 10 seconds t

Answer 1

It's most likely the network settings causing this problem. I recently had the same issue and it turned out that when using HttpWebRequest or RestSharp it was trying some auto configuration to look for a proxy server.

Open the network settings in Internet Explorer and disable auto configuration for the local network. In my case this resolved the delay for the first request in RestSharp as well.