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authorErik Johnston <erikj@jki.re>2017-02-01 09:44:14 +0000
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-02-01 09:44:14 +0000
commit06567ec51362710305fcc13bc762436e399194df (patch)
treeae84c6d5eb12cc35756ce63234de378cda9e72fc /synapse/util
parentMerge pull request #1864 from matrix-org/erikj/device_list_fixes (diff)
parentRemove explicit < 400 check as apparently this is confusing (diff)
downloadsynapse-06567ec51362710305fcc13bc762436e399194df.tar.xz
Merge pull request #1866 from matrix-org/erikj/device_list_fixes
Better handle 404 response for federation /send/
Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/util')
-rw-r--r--synapse/util/retryutils.py19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/util/retryutils.py b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
index e2de7fce91..b94ae369cf 100644
--- a/synapse/util/retryutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/retryutils.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
     def __init__(self, destination, clock, store, retry_interval,
                  min_retry_interval=10 * 60 * 1000,
                  max_retry_interval=24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
-                 multiplier_retry_interval=5,):
+                 multiplier_retry_interval=5, backoff_on_404=False):
         """Marks the destination as "down" if an exception is thrown in the
         context, except for CodeMessageException with code < 500.
 
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
                 a failed request, in milliseconds.
             multiplier_retry_interval (int): The multiplier to use to increase
                 the retry interval after a failed request.
+            backoff_on_404 (bool): Back off if we get a 404
         """
         self.clock = clock
         self.store = store
@@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
         self.min_retry_interval = min_retry_interval
         self.max_retry_interval = max_retry_interval
         self.multiplier_retry_interval = multiplier_retry_interval
+        self.backoff_on_404 = backoff_on_404
 
     def __enter__(self):
         pass
@@ -123,7 +125,20 @@ class RetryDestinationLimiter(object):
     def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
         valid_err_code = False
         if exc_type is not None and issubclass(exc_type, CodeMessageException):
-            valid_err_code = exc_val.code != 429 and 0 <= exc_val.code < 500
+            # Some error codes are perfectly fine for some APIs, whereas other
+            # APIs may expect to never received e.g. a 404. It's important to
+            # handle 404 as some remote servers will return a 404 when the HS
+            # has been decommissioned.
+            if exc_val.code == 404 and self.backoff_on_404:
+                valid_err_code = False
+            elif exc_val.code == 429:
+                # 429 is us being aggresively rate limited, so lets rate limit
+                # ourselves.
+                valid_err_code = False
+            elif exc_val.code < 500:
+                valid_err_code = True
+            else:
+                valid_err_code = False
 
         if exc_type is None or valid_err_code:
             # We connected successfully.