| Long: retry |
| Arg: <num> |
| Added: 7.12.3 |
| Help: Retry request if transient problems occur |
| --- |
| If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a transfer, it |
| will retry this number of times before giving up. Setting the number to 0 |
| makes curl do no retries (which is the default). Transient error means either: |
| a timeout, an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 408 or 5xx response code. |
| |
| When curl is about to retry a transfer, it will first wait one second and then |
| for all forthcoming retries it will double the waiting time until it reaches |
| 10 minutes which then will be the delay between the rest of the retries. By |
| using --retry-delay you disable this exponential backoff algorithm. See also |
| --retry-max-time to limit the total time allowed for retries. |
| |
| Since curl 7.66.0, curl will comply with the Retry-After: response header if |
| one was present to know when to issue the next retry. |
| |
| If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. |
