With the recent release of .NET 7, we’d like to introduce some interesting changes and additions done in the networking space. This blog post talks about .NET 7 changes in HTTP space, new QUIC APIs, networking security and WebSockets.
HTTP Improved handling of connection attempt failures
In versions prior to .NET 6, in case there is no connection immediately available in the connection pool, a new HTTP request will always spin up a new connection attempt and wait for it (if the settings on the handler permit it, e.g. MaxConnectionsPerServer for HTTP/1.1, or EnableMultipleHttp2Connections for HTTP/2). The downside to this