hashicorp/go-retryablehttp

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library providing an HTTP client wrapper around net/http with automatic retries and exponential backoff. It exposes a nearly identical API to the standard library, making it easy to drop into existing Go programs.

Use cases

• add automatic retries to http requests in go
• retry failed http calls with exponential backoff
• make resilient api calls that survive transient errors
• retry on 5xx responses and connection errors
• wrap net/http client with retry logic
• rewind request bodies for retrying post requests

When to choose

• you want drop-in retry behavior for Go HTTP calls with a familiar net/http API
• you need to retry idempotent requests or rewindable-body requests on transient failures
• you want a battle-tested HashiCorp library with a standard *http.Client conversion

When to avoid

• you need retries for non-HTTP protocols
• you require fine-grained custom retry policies beyond error/5xx conditions
• your Go version is older than the library's minimum requirement

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client middleware web-development developer-tools apis go cross-platform retry exponential-backoff net-http-wrapper resilience

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