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Improve default RetryHandler implementation

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
api

Research direction

The issue does not name a source file or test; start by locating the default RetryHandler implementation and its existing retry tests in the Java SDK. Check how 403, 404, 503, and the retry-after header are handled, then add coverage showing that retries occur only when the requested response header permits them.

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Description

Needs: Attention :wave: type:enhancement type:legacy-version
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the problem.

SDK V5
As per incident: 2409111420000033
in case there is a low memory on server side the server returns 503 for other error codes.

In such cases SDK treats 404, 403 errors as if it is 503 and retries.

We were instructed by Microsoft support person of contact to implement RetryHandler on application side and retry only if "retry-after" header is present. However, it sounds like this should be handled in SDK side rather than us.

Describe the solution you'd like.

I would propose such cases, when Microsoft servers have low memory to be handled by SDK

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