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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2019-08-06 11:57:02 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2019-08-07 14:45:44 +0200
commit640b9733de74d629af68afcad0ff8bb658e80eff (patch)
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downloadcurl-640b9733de74d629af68afcad0ff8bb658e80eff.tar.gz
curl: make use of CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER when retrying
If a Retry-After: header was used in the response, that value overrides other retry timing options. Fixes #3794 Closes #4195
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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
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@@ -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.