Tricked by WebRequest
Read OriginalThe article details a bug encountered in the Datadog .NET tracer when switching from HttpClient to HttpWebRequest. A customer's custom WebRequest factory caused an InvalidCastException. The author explains the root cause—global WebRequest prefix overrides—and reveals the solution: using WebRequest.CreateHttp to guarantee an HttpWebRequest instance, along with challenges in writing unit tests for this scenario.
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