Automatic retry when receiving 5xx responses

[rarkins]

I am a heavy user of gh-got as part of renovate. A small percentage of request receive a 502 Bad Gateway response and it's pretty obvious that these should be retried somewhere in the stack rather than bailing and stopping all subsequent processing.

I was going to write a wrapper around gh-got to achieve this but then thought I'd open an issue here for discussion first as it seems like something all users of gh-got would benefit from and not specific to my application.

Relevant thread there: sindresorhus/got#199 (kind of dismissing the idea).

Additionally: I do not need stream support

[sindresorhus]

Sure, that could be useful. Could probably use https://github.com/sindresorhus/p-retry for this.

[rarkins]

Thanks for the feedback and pointer to p-retry. What I plan to do is incorporate a p-retry wrapper within my application first and observe its results for a while before proposing the enhancement into gh-got here.