curl/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.md
Daniel Stenberg 2494b8dd51
docs/cmdline: change to .md for cmdline docs
- switch all invidual files documenting command line options into .md,
   as the documentation is now markdown-looking.

 - made the parser treat 4-space indents as quotes

 - switch to building the curl.1 manpage using the "mainpage.idx" file,
   which lists the files to include to generate it, instead of using the
   previous page-footer/headers. Also, those files are now also .md
   ones, using the same format. I gave them underscore prefixes to make
   them sort separately:
   _NAME.md, _SYNOPSIS.md, _DESCRIPTION.md, _URL.md, _GLOBBING.md,
   _VARIABLES.md, _OUTPUT.md, _PROTOCOLS.md, _PROGRESS.md, _VERSION.md,
   _OPTIONS.md, _FILES.md, _ENVIRONMENT.md, _PROXYPREFIX.md,
   _EXITCODES.md, _BUGS.md, _AUTHORS.md, _WWW.md, _SEEALSO.md

 - updated test cases accordingly

Closes #12751
2024-01-23 14:30:15 +01:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Long: retry
Arg: <num>
Added: 7.12.3
Help: Retry request if transient problems occur
Category: curl
Multi: single
See-also:
- retry-max-time
Example:
- --retry 7 $URL
---
# `--retry`
If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a transfer, it
retries 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, 429, 500, 502, 503 or 504
response code.
When curl is about to retry a transfer, it first waits one second and then for
all forthcoming retries it doubles the waiting time until it reaches 10
minutes which then remains 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.
curl complies with the Retry-After: response header if one was present to know
when to issue the next retry (added in 7.66.0).