Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] http: automatically retry some requests

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 01:10:46PM -0600, Sean McAllister wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:09 PM Sean McAllister <smcallis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 3:14 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I do think you could be leveraging CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER rather than
> > > implementing your own header parsing, though.
> > >
> > Ah I didn't know about CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER, I'll look at that and use
> > it if I can.
> >
> I took a look, it looks like CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER was only added in
> 7.66 (September, 2019),  so
> I don't think it's reasonable to rely on it for getting the
> Retry-After value in this case.

I agree that's pretty recent.

How important is it that we respect it? I.e., we'd have some sane retry
behavior if the header is missing anyway. On older curl versions, how
bad would it be to just use that fallback behavior all the time?

-Peff



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