How do retries work?

Question

I see that there are options for enabling retries - RetryCount and RetryDelay. The description of RetryCount is "Number of times to retry a failing file-transfer before giving up." Does this mean that retries are only performed during a file transfer? What about a failure to connect to a site before initiating a transfer?

Answer 1

Yes, these retries are for failed file transfers, not failures to connect initially. We leave it to the application developer to handle initial failures. For file transfers, we already know there was a successful connection attempt and so it's worth automatically retrying.