[ruby-core:81154] [Ruby trunk Feature#10674] Net::HTTP retries idempotent requests once after a timeout, but its not configurable

[cben@redhat.com]

Issue #10674 has been updated by cben (Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin).


Can confirm on 2.4.1.
The responsible code is here: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/v2_4_1/lib/net/http.rb#L1468
I'm thinking of making a simple patch adding a boolean "#retry=".  Application or higher-level gems can then implement any retry logic...

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Feature #10674: Net::HTTP retries idempotent requests once after a timeout, but its not configurable
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10674#change-64806

* Author: jlecour (Jérémy Lecour)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
* Target version: 
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Hi,

I've noticed that Net::HTTP retries idempotent requests once after a time-out. It seems to adhere to the RFC 2616 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616), but it is not always the best thing to do.

When you don't know exactly how a remote web service works, it may be wise to retry after a time-out.
But when you know that a retry won't change anything, it should be possible to disable this automatic retry. Otherwise, the server will have to deal with 2 requests (instead of 1) and the client will effectively time-out twice later than expected (time for the first and second time-out).

Having a basic "#retry=" (like we have "#read_timeout=" or "#open_timeout" would be good first step.
The value could be a simple boolean, or even an integer for the maximum number of retries.

The "Retry" middleware in Faraday has a more comprehensive feature set with max retries, exponential back-off, … : https://github.com/lostisland/faraday/blob/master/lib/faraday/request/retry.rb



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