Curl retry mechanism

Question

I have a script I run to deploy 2 web services and a front-end application. The script calls a method that checks to see if the 2 back-end services are up and running. If so

Answer 1

If you use --max-time 10 this will kill your connection before 10 seconds so its not useful when downloading.

Following will retry 300 times with 5sec delay and 30sec connection timeout

curl \
    --connect-timeout 30 \
    --retry 300 \
    --retry-delay 5 \
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