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Retry 500 status code

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Assessment

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

Research direction

Search the client’s retry configuration and any retry-related tests for the status-code list. Confirm that 500 is included and that the relevant retry behavior is covered and passes its tests.

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Description

proposal

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Requests occasionally will fail due to an intermittent internal server error. Retrying the request shortly afterwards is successful.

httpx.HTTPStatusError: Server error '500 Internal Server Error' for url 'https://api.planet.com/subscriptions/v1’

Describe the solution you'd like
Add 500 to list of status codes that are retried.

Describe alternatives you've considered
None

Additional context
None

Dominant language
Python
Stars
300
Forks
100
Avg merge
9d 22h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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