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Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Add support for --retry-http503
From: |
Giuseppe Scrivano |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Add support for --retry-http503 |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:24:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Tom,
Tom Szilagyi <address@hidden> writes:
> Consider HTTP 503 (Service unavailable) as a non-fatal, transient
> error. Normally Wget gives up immediately on receiving this HTTP
> response. Certain special use cases might require Wget to retry even
> in the face of this error. With this option, such retries are
> performed subject to the normal retry timing and retry count
> limitations of Wget. Using this option is generally not recommended.
thanks for working on it. If we are going to add something like this, I
think it should be made more generic. What about something like:
--retry-on-http-error=503,504,505...
Regards,
Giuseppe