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-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d3
-rw-r--r--src/tool_operate.c15
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
index 32d1c799b..3db89b71c 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
@@ -14,4 +14,7 @@ for all forthcoming retries it will double the waiting time until it reaches
using --retry-delay you disable this exponential backoff algorithm. See also
--retry-max-time to limit the total time allowed for retries.
+Since curl 7.66.0, curl will comply with the Retry-After: response header if
+one was present to know when to issue the next retry.
+
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
diff --git a/src/tool_operate.c b/src/tool_operate.c
index 923b5a99d..01ee20061 100644
--- a/src/tool_operate.c
+++ b/src/tool_operate.c
@@ -496,6 +496,8 @@ static CURLcode post_transfer(struct GlobalConfig *global,
}
if(retry) {
+ long sleeptime = 0;
+ curl_off_t retry_after = 0;
static const char * const m[]={
NULL,
"timeout",
@@ -504,13 +506,24 @@ static CURLcode post_transfer(struct GlobalConfig *global,
"FTP error"
};
+ sleeptime = per->retry_sleep;
+ if(RETRY_HTTP == retry) {
+ curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER, &retry_after);
+ if(retry_after) {
+ /* store in a 'long', make sure it doesn't overflow */
+ if(retry_after > LONG_MAX/1000)
+ sleeptime = LONG_MAX;
+ else
+ sleeptime = (long)retry_after * 1000; /* milliseconds */
+ }
+ }
warnf(config->global, "Transient problem: %s "
"Will retry in %ld seconds. "
"%ld retries left.\n",
m[retry], per->retry_sleep/1000L, per->retry_numretries);
- tool_go_sleep(per->retry_sleep);
per->retry_numretries--;
+ tool_go_sleep(sleeptime);
if(!config->retry_delay) {
per->retry_sleep *= 2;
if(per->retry_sleep > RETRY_SLEEP_MAX)