| lh | 9ed821d | 2023-04-07 01:36:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Long: retry |
| 2 | Arg: <num> |
| 3 | Added: 7.12.3 |
| 4 | Help: Retry request if transient problems occur |
| 5 | --- |
| 6 | If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a transfer, it |
| 7 | will retry this number of times before giving up. Setting the number to 0 |
| 8 | makes curl do no retries (which is the default). Transient error means either: |
| 9 | a timeout, an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 5xx response code. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | When curl is about to retry a transfer, it will first wait one second and then |
| 12 | for all forthcoming retries it will double the waiting time until it reaches |
| 13 | 10 minutes which then will be the delay between the rest of the retries. By |
| 14 | using --retry-delay you disable this exponential backoff algorithm. See also |
| 15 | --retry-max-time to limit the total time allowed for retries. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. |