Commit 31e33a9a authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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HTTP: retry failed HEAD requests too 

Mark's new document about HTTP Retries
(https://mnot.github.io/I-D/httpbis-retry/) made me check our code and I
spotted that we don't retry failed HEAD requests which seems totally
inconsistent and I can't see any reason for that separate treatment.

So, no separate treatment for HEAD starting now. A HTTP request sent
over a reused connection that gets cut off before a single byte is
received will be retried on a fresh connection.

Made-aware-by: Mark Nottingham
parent 04f84edd

lib/transfer.c

+6 −7
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@@ -1891,12 +1891,11 @@ CURLcode Curl_retry_request(struct connectdata *conn, 


  if((data->req.bytecount + data->req.headerbytecount == 0) &&

     conn->bits.reuse &&

      !data->set.opt_no_body &&

     (data->set.rtspreq != RTSPREQ_RECEIVE)) {

    /* We got no data, we attempted to re-use a connection and yet we want a

       "body". This might happen if the connection was left alive when we were

       done using it before, but that was closed when we wanted to read from

       it again. Bad luck. Retry the same request on a fresh connect! */

    /* We didn't get a single byte when we attempted to re-use a

       connection. This might happen if the connection was left alive when we

       were done using it before, but that was closed when we wanted to use it

       again. Bad luck. Retry the same request on a fresh connect! */

    infof(conn->data, "Connection died, retrying a fresh connect\n");

    *url = strdup(conn->data->change.url);

    if(!*url)