Re: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-httpbis-retry-01.txt

> Applications sometimes want requests to be retried by
> infrastructure, but can't easily express them in a non-idempotent
> request (such as GET).

nit: did you mean "in an idempotent request (such as GET)"?

> A client SHOULD NOT automatically retry a failed automatic retry.

Why does RFC 7230 say this? I am aware of HTTP clients that completely
ignore this suggestion, and I can't offhand think of a reason why this is a
good rule-of-thumb to follow.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> FYI; fairly minor update. Would love to hear what people think about the
> various suggested paths forward.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *internet-drafts@ietf.org
> *Subject: **New Version Notification for
> draft-nottingham-httpbis-retry-01.txt*
> *Date: *1 February 2017 at 7:25:43 pm AEDT
> *To: *"Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>
>
>
> A new version of I-D, draft-nottingham-httpbis-retry-01.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Mark Nottingham and posted to the
> IETF repository.
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> Name: draft-nottingham-httpbis-retry
> Revision: 01
> Title: Retrying HTTP Requests
> Document date: 2017-02-01
> Group: Individual Submission
> Pages: 18
> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-
> nottingham-httpbis-retry-01.txt
> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-
> httpbis-retry/
> Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-httpbis-
> retry-01
> Diff:           https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-
> nottingham-httpbis-retry-01
>
> Abstract:
>   HTTP allows requests to be automatically retried under certain
>   circumstances.  This draft explores how this is implemented,
>   requirements for similar functionality from other parts of the stack,
>   and potential future improvements.
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