Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I see. With Peff's proposal, the backend service could still set > Retry-After, and *modern* machines with new enough libcurl would still > respect it, but older machines[*] would have to use some fallback > behavior. > > I suppose that fallback behavior could be to not retry at all. Yup, that is a quite attractive approach. We'll let the passage of time work for us.