In my current project, we have to integrate with a third party API. One of the security requirements is to use mTLS. This means we have to pass the client certificate when sending HTTP requests to the third party. Since we’re using named HttpClient, we can specify the client certificate when registering the HttpClient in … [Read more…]
Some of our services have to make outbound HTTP requests to an integration partner via a proxy. In this post, I’m going to show how to configure the proxy when registering HTTP clients. This will work with all types of HTTP clients, see here for more information on what they are. Let’s say we want … [Read more…]
Polly is a great library allowing us to add policies such as retry, circuit breaker, timeout, etc. to our HttpClient. These are the policies I used in my project and how to add them to HttpClient RetryPolicy This policy is for GET requests. We only want to retry if HTTP status code is request timeout … [Read more…]
Previously I showed how to log all HttpClient outgoing requests. I later added some logics for adding default headers in the SendAsync method in OutgoingHttpClient. I wanted to unit test this to make sure my logic is correct. I thought I could mock the HttpClient the normal way but since the SendAsync method in HttpClient is not virtual, I get … [Read more…]
My current project has lots of outgoing requests to third parties including HTTP and SOAP requests. I was tasked to log all outgoing requests in their raw form. In this post, I’m going to show my implementation for logging outgoing HTTP requests. I’m using .Net Core 2.1 and HttpClientFactory for this solution. I could use … [Read more…]