tool_operate: Add http code 408 to transient list for --retry

- Treat 408 request timeout as transient so that curl will retry the
  request if --retry was used.

Closes #2925

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
index 35215dfd4a806a36d50847e15d8c224b01361fd8..32d1c799bfadf0dfff9b4b6aaa45f977866df76c 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Help: Retry request if transient problems occur
 If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a transfer, it
 will retry 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 5xx response code.
+a timeout, an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 408 or 5xx response code.
 
 When curl is about to retry a transfer, it will first wait one second and then
 for all forthcoming retries it will double the waiting time until it reaches

diff --git a/src/tool_operate.c b/src/tool_operate.c
index 630a84d92ebda748bf538212233f06ee88bdffa5..2c3f6dd4cedbe3be37b6ef033ce20d715a2aa64b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/tool_operate.c
+++ b/src/tool_operate.c
@@ -1631,6 +1631,7 @@ static CURLcode operate_do(struct GlobalConfig *global,
                 curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &response);
 
                 switch(response) {
+                case 408: /* Request Timeout */
                 case 500: /* Internal Server Error */
                 case 502: /* Bad Gateway */
                 case 503: /* Service Unavailable */