srid/slownews

Handle timeouts in the Haskell backend

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#20 opened on Dec 20, 2017

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.. and other http errors. Just retry.

backend: HttpExceptionRequest Request {
  host                 = "www.reddit.com"
  port                 = 443
  secure               = True
  requestHeaders       = [("User-Agent","haskell wreq-0.5.1.0")]
  path                 = "/r/zerocarb/top/.json"
  queryString          = "?sort=top&t=week&limit=3"
  method               = "GET"
  proxy                = Nothing
  rawBody              = False
  redirectCount        = 10
  responseTimeout      = ResponseTimeoutDefault
  requestVersion       = HTTP/1.1
}
 (ConnectionFailure Network.Socket.getAddrInfo: does not exist (nodename nor servname provided, or not known))

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Implement retry logic for HTTP requests in the Haskell backend to handle timeouts and connection failures.
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
backend
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