The BaseClient should implement the IDisposable interface as it contains a disposable HttpClient.
Internally, none of the references to HttpRequestMessage or HttpResponseMessage are properly disposed of, either in a using statement or explicitly.
This causes the underlying streams and sockets to hang around leading to memory leaks and socket exhaustion.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/runtime-libraries/system-idisposable
I'm not sure why this has been ignored, and for so long, but it has.
The BaseClient should implement the IDisposable interface as it contains a disposable HttpClient.
Internally, none of the references to HttpRequestMessage or HttpResponseMessage are properly disposed of, either in a using statement or explicitly.
This causes the underlying streams and sockets to hang around leading to memory leaks and socket exhaustion.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/runtime-libraries/system-idisposable
I'm not sure why this has been ignored, and for so long, but it has.