HttpClient lifespan

[neptar]

I have a library that uses refit to create an sdk for integration to a 3rd party api. This is an old winforms project and does not contain any di containers or currently use httpclientfactory

It works fine but I have a question about the default implementation of refit.

If I have the following:

`public static IV12Api GetApi(string hostUrl)
{
var options = new JsonSerializerOptions()
{
DefaultIgnoreCondition = JsonIgnoreCondition.WhenWritingNull
};

return RestService.For<IV12Api>(hostUrl,
    new RefitSettings
    {
        ContentSerializer = new SystemTextJsonContentSerializer(options)
    });

}`

If I monitor connections on my machine I can see when I call the methods from the results above it creates a connection, does the request and then leaves the connection open for a few mins and does eventually close.

Is this okay to leave the client connected when the amount of calls will be little and not often. I could theoretically create the httpclient before each request(s) and pass it into refit and then close after the request(s) and handle it myself. Or am I best leaving it to refit to handle as is.

[neptar]

after doing more digging I can see the refit doesn't spawn new clients even if you call the for method many times.