I think the definition of "temporary" is the issue here. Something like an underlying EAGAN is "temporary" - retrying the same operation that failed on the same socket again can succeed. A read error from a closed TCP connection is not temporary - reading again cannot possibly unclose the connection and suddenly succeed.
However, it not being a temporary error doesn’t mean that larger scale operation can never succeed - retrying by making another request can work. In other words, for your HTTP purposes I don’t think the (*OpError).Temporary() is a valuable indicator. You’re probably better off considering known fatal HTTP errors as non-temporary (a 404 probably indicates the request won’t succeed in 500 ms either, unless you know otherwise) and other errors as transient and subject to a retry. //jb On 17 Apr 2018, at 06:56, Jens-Uwe Mager <juma...@gmail.com<mailto:juma...@gmail.com>> wrote: Looking further into this, I see this as a typical transient error in a bad network on downloading files. It may be different elsewhere, but I have to retry on that error as it appears. And I cannot change the network somewhere in the Guatemala outback. On Monday, April 16, 2018 at 4:59:28 PM UTC-6, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Jens-Uwe Mager <jum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am checking net.error for the Temporary() condition, and in my very bad > network I do see really a lot of errors. While doing a GET request I see > that > > http: unexpected EOF reading trailer > > is not a temporary error, so my retry logic does not kick in. Is this a > special case or just an oversight? EOF means that the TCP connection has closed, so this error is not temporary. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
