Chapter 3. Understanding the New Networking Capabilities
In this chapter, we will cover how to use the HttpClient and new System.Net.Http namespaces.
Introduction
.NET 4.5 brings improved capabilities in networking such as more support for internationalization, protocol improvements, better performance, and new programming interfaces for HTTP and WebSockets. The main improvement is that it now fully supports WebSockets and the complete HTTP standard.
.NET Framework 4.5 enhances internationalization with the following features
- Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) support
- E-mail Address Internationalization (EAI) support
- International Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) support, compliant with the latest RFCs from the Internet Engineering Task Force (
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