From: Emre Çalışkan <bilgi@emrecaliskan.com.tr>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:35:54 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: transfer: reset retry count on each request
X-Git-Tag: rc-8_17_0-2~76
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5e46318414590c99fc98709598e5e3441d63648b;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

transfer: reset retry count on each request

Reported-by: plv1313 on github
Fixes #18926
Closes #19066
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diff --git a/lib/easy.c b/lib/easy.c
index 877cf13b9b..793a18f33e 100644
--- a/lib/easy.c
+++ b/lib/easy.c
@@ -1119,7 +1119,6 @@ void curl_easy_reset(CURL *d)
 
   data->progress.hide = TRUE;
   data->state.current_speed = -1; /* init to negative == impossible */
-  data->state.retrycount = 0;     /* reset the retry counter */
   data->state.recent_conn_id = -1; /* clear remembered connection id */
 
   /* zero out authentication data: */
diff --git a/lib/transfer.c b/lib/transfer.c
index d20440fec7..d7014aab87 100644
--- a/lib/transfer.c
+++ b/lib/transfer.c
@@ -481,6 +481,14 @@ CURLcode Curl_pretransfer(struct Curl_easy *data)
 {
   CURLcode result = CURLE_OK;
 
+  /* Reset the retry count at the start of each request.
+   * If the retry count is not reset, when the connection drops,
+   * it will not enter the retry mechanism on CONN_MAX_RETRIES + 1 attempts
+   * and will immediately throw
+   * "Connection died, tried CONN_MAX_RETRIES times before giving up".
+   * By resetting it here, we ensure each new request starts fresh. */
+  data->state.retrycount = 0;
+
   if(!data->set.str[STRING_SET_URL] && !data->set.uh) {
     /* we cannot do anything without URL */
     failf(data, "No URL set");