Snowbank Betterhttp

How to make outbound HTTP calls with BetterHttpClient (SnowBank.Networking.Http) in an ASP.NET Core or generic-host .NET application - the DI story and the request API. Covers the policy-bundle model (AddBetterHttpClient registers named bundles of wire policy, not origins), IBetterHttpClientFactory and the transient-shell-over-pooled-chain lifetime, the supported doors vs the plain IHttpClientFactory door (which throws for bundle names), the mandatory INetworkMap transport seam (NetworkMap in production, the virtual network inside distributed tests, with packet capture riding every chain automatically), BetterHttpClientOptions (default headers and UserAgent, cookies, credentials, TLS server-certificate callbacks and the self-signed/trusted-roots helpers, filters, hooks, delegating handlers), the Create*Request builders and the SendAsync(request, ctx => ...) lifecycle with BetterHttpClientContext, typed protocols (RestHttpProtocol, BetterHttpProtocolFactoryBase, the AddFooClient extension-method pattern), and how to port legacy HttpWebRequest / WebClient (.NET Framework) code to this stack. Use whenever application code registers or injects an HttpClient in a SnowBank-based app, declares a named client, configures user agents or HTTPS certificate validation, ports HttpWebRequest/.NET Framework 4.7.2 networking code to net8+/net10, wonders why IHttpClientFactory.CreateClient(name) throws InvalidOperationException naming IBetterHttpClientFactory, or hits "You must register an implementation for INetworkMap".

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@misc{snowbank-betterhttp-2026,
  author    = {SnowBankSDK},
  title     = {Snowbank Betterhttp [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/snowbank-betterhttp/}
}