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Re:Don't trust default timeouts by cortesoft on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:17PM (#24318201)
Retrying doesn’t help on a slow connection... if the best case connections speed of your user is slower than your timeout, you can retry infinite times and it wont help.

Maybe increase the timeout on retry?

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Re:Don't trust default timeouts by nitrogen on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:35PM (#24318372)
Exponential backoff but for the timeout instead of the interval, and/or a Wait Longer button, sound useful.
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