On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Tobias Wendorff wrote:

> It seems like "--retry" doesn't work at all.
> I tried this command: "curl --retry 10 http://84.187.0.223:81/"
>
> Since I'm not running any server on port 81, it gives me
> "curl: (7) couldn't connect to host"

Allow me to quote the manual:

    --retry <num>
           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 5xx
           response code or an HTTP 5xx response code.

Failing to connect is not mentioned there, since it isn't considered a
transient error and thus the transfer won't be retried...

You're looking for a modified or extended behaviour of the --retry option that
doesn't currently exist.

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