Force retry on specific http status code

Question

Dealing with a specific website, sometimes I receive a http response with status code 403. I wanted to re-execute the request in such cases (because, in my specific situation, t

Answer 1

Try using a custom ServiceUnavailableRetryStrategy

CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.custom()
        .setServiceUnavailableRetryStrategy(new ServiceUnavailableRetryStrategy() {
            @Override
            public boolean retryRequest(
                    final HttpResponse response, final int executionCount, final HttpContext context) {
                int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
                return statusCode == 403 && executionCount < 5;
            }

            @Override
            public long getRetryInterval() {
                return 0;
            }
        })
        .build();