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| author | Kevin Burke <kev@inburke.com> | 2014-10-27 09:56:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Kevin Burke <kev@inburke.com> | 2014-10-27 09:56:18 -0700 |
| commit | a703e24573d46871f5cd63631e33778281981f24 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d66bd2f50d9b7dee7366c337c8e8636d29cf144 | |
| parent | f2f3bdea8da5f4ba7f56d6a9dd4b2b5f414abf32 (diff) | |
| download | python-requests-a703e24573d46871f5cd63631e33778281981f24.tar.gz | |
Update documentation about max_retries to reflect code
| -rw-r--r-- | HISTORY.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | requests/adapters.py | 6 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst index 4e7903dd..0d0d216d 100644 --- a/HISTORY.rst +++ b/HISTORY.rst @@ -49,8 +49,6 @@ Release History **Behavioral Changes** - ``Connection: keep-alive`` header is now sent automatically. -- Read timeout errors will no longer be retried when you create a Session with - ``max_retries`` greater than zero. **Improvements** diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py index abb25d11..01a5f338 100644 --- a/requests/adapters.py +++ b/requests/adapters.py @@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ class HTTPAdapter(BaseAdapter): :param pool_connections: The number of urllib3 connection pools to cache. :param pool_maxsize: The maximum number of connections to save in the pool. :param int max_retries: The maximum number of retries each connection - should attempt. Note, this applies only to failed connections and - timeouts, never to requests where the server returns a response. + should attempt. Note, this applies only to failed DNS lookups, socket + connections and connection timeouts, never to requests where data has + made it to the server. By default, Requests does not retry failed + connections. :param pool_block: Whether the connection pool should block for connections. Usage:: |