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Re: working around status code 429

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 11:39:51 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, Dirk Hünniger via curl-users wrote:

> you are right. Its retrying after one second, and not doing the exponential
> fallback it usually does. Thats why it concluded after a few minutes. Thanks
> for the explanation that curl is following the servers proposal to try again
> after one second. Everything is explained this way. If you want, you can add
> a command line option to override the servers proposal. For me it is not
> needed because, I do the retrying in an external loop around the call to
> curl now.

I'm thinking it could perhaps be argued that curl should treat the Retry-After
time as a *minimum* time, so that if it already has backed off a bit by
itself, it would still use that longer time...

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