Re: [Bug-wget] request to change retry default

[Tim Rühsen]

On 07/08/2018 02:59 AM, John Roman wrote:
> Greetings,
> I wish to discuss a formal change of the default retry for wget from 20
> to something more pragmatic such as two or three.
> 
> While I believe 20 retries may have been the correct default many years
> ago, it seems overkill for the modern "cloud based" internet, where most 
> sites are
> backed by one or more load balancers.  Geolocateable A records further
> reduce the necessity for retries by providing a second or third option
> for browsers to try.  To a lesser extent, GTM and GSLB technologies
> (however maligned they may be) are sufficient as well to
> properly handle failures for significant amounts of traffic.  BGP
> network technology for large hosting providers has also further reduced
> the need to perform several retries to a site.  Finally, for better or
> worse, environments such as Kubernetes and other container orchestration
> tools seem to afford sites an unlimited uptime should the marketing be
> trusted.

Solution: Just add 'tries = 3' to /etc/wgetrc or to ~/.wgetrc and never
care for it again.

But I wonder myself a bit about your request... if 3 tries would always
be enough to catch a file safely, then it doesn't matter if tries is set
to 20, 20.000 or even unlimited. Is there something you might have
forgotten to write !?

Regards, Tim

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