Does HttpWebRequest's limit of 2 connections per host apply to HttpClient?

Question

Does anybody know, with confidence if the (default) rate limit of 2 connections per host applies to System.Net.Http.HttpClient.

Please state the source of your infor

Answer 1

According to the documentation (see the third paragraph of Remarks), HttpClient uses a HttpWebRequest by default. And HttpWebRequest certainly does have the two concurrent connections per host limitation.

HttpClient doesn't say if the HttpClientHandler (the default) changes any of the defaults in HttpWebRequest. I would suspect not.

If you want to change that, you'll have to create your own HttpMessageHandler and pass a reference to the HttpClient constructor.