Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Add support for --retry-http503

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 11:24:33 AM CET Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Tom Szilagyi <address@hidden> writes:
> > Consider HTTP 503 (Service unavailable) as a non-fatal, transient
> > error. Normally Wget gives up immediately on receiving this HTTP
> > response. Certain special use cases might require Wget to retry even
> > in the face of this error. With this option, such retries are
> > performed subject to the normal retry timing and retry count
> > limitations of Wget. Using this option is generally not recommended.
> 
> thanks for working on it.  If we are going to add something like this, I
> think it should be made more generic.  What about something like:
> 
> --retry-on-http-error=503,504,505...

I think that this is a good idea. There are also 4xx and 9xx codes where 
retries could make sense (e.g. 429 - Too Many Requests) under certain 
conditions.

The 503 response could contain 'Retry-After', a suggestion for the time of the 
next retry. Does it make sense to support it ?

Tim

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