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authorFrançois Freitag <mail@franek.fr>2020-10-04 21:40:14 +0200
committerFrançois Freitag <mail@franek.fr>2020-11-25 17:34:55 +0100
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Fix #6629: linkcheck: Handle rate-limiting
Follow the Retry-After header if present, otherwise use an exponential back-off.
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@@ -442,6 +442,10 @@ name is ``rinoh``. Refer to the `rinohtype manual`_ for details.
Since Sphinx-1.5, the linkcheck builder comes to use requests module.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
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+ The linkcheck builder retries links when servers apply rate limits.
+
.. module:: sphinx.builders.xml
.. class:: XMLBuilder