From 5c4a526388e5d45f332d241b03114eaff98c53ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:50:25 +0100 Subject: cmdline-opts: more command line options documented Moved over to the new format --- docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d') diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d new file mode 100644 index 000000000..35215dfd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Long: retry +Arg: +Added: 7.12.3 +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. + +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 +10 minutes which then will be the delay between the rest of the retries. By +using --retry-delay you disable this exponential backoff algorithm. See also +--retry-max-time to limit the total time allowed for retries. + +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. -- cgit v1.2.3