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

A bit more elaboration on Chrome's behavior:

I didn't see it mentioned in the draft, but the reason we retry is that any
time we reuse a socket, there's a race - servers timeout sockets after some
period, and we don't know what that period is.  So we could be retrying at
the same time the server is closing the socket on us.

We'll retry on a "stale" socket (one that was connected and then sat in a
socket pool, with or without being used first).  So if we fully preconnect
to a server before there's a connection request, we consider the socket
stale,if we've used a socket before, it's stale, or if we created a socket
to service a request, but the request was cancelled, and then the socket
connected and was returned to the socket pool, it's stale.

We only retry if we've received no response from a server, or if we get a
failure while still sending the request (i.e., if we're in the middle of
sending the request on error, we'll retry, even if there's data on the
socket from the server, since we don't bother to check for that).

We also only retry on certain errors (reset, connection closed, connection
aborted (Which is a weird error from the OS of some sort), H2 ping failure,
H2 server refusing the stream, QUIC handshake error.  This probably doesn't
include all the errors that we could get racily while reusing a socket (TCP
ping timeout, for instance?).


On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> FYI; fairly minor update. Would love to hear what people think about the
> various suggested paths forward.
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> Cheers,
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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>
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> 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
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> 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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