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authorJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2018-08-31 15:27:54 -0400
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-09-03 13:19:14 +0200
commit351c0f3a551952261b2678b27952ba97eddb1754 (patch)
tree4390a4e6cf1fe75d3944fe2854e77299d5a1a017 /docs/cmdline-opts
parent978574b502294ae06eb97d4f590b54ed5d24cd7f (diff)
tool_operate: Add http code 408 to transient list for --retry
- Treat 408 request timeout as transient so that curl will retry the request if --retry was used. Closes #2925
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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
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+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Help: Retry request if transient problems occur
If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a transfer, it
will retry this number of times before giving up. Setting the number to 0
makes curl do no retries (which is the default). Transient error means either:
-a timeout, an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 5xx response code.
+a timeout, an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 408 or 5xx response code.
When curl is about to retry a transfer, it will first wait one second and then
for all forthcoming retries it will double the waiting time until it reaches