what exactly is the difference between the HttpCli...

# ktor

[zt]

what exactly is the difference between the HttpClient that takes an engineFactory and the one that takes an engine? Is there a specific use case I would use one over the other?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

The one, that takes a factory, manages the lifecycle of a created engine. For the other one, that takes an engine, you have to release engine resources manually, but it can be shared among several clients.