Honor Retry-After and preserve server retry deadlines (#47641)

## Why

HTTP retries used local backoff even when the server supplied `Retry-After`. Relative retry delays also failed to account for time spent propagating errors or reporting retries.

## What changed

- Parse `Retry-After` delay seconds and HTTP dates into a monotonic deadline captured when response headers arrive.
- Honor that deadline for HTTP retries, falling back to local backoff when valid advice is absent.
- Preserve deadlines through API and Bedrock error mapping, stream retries, and exhausted retry state. Expired advice remains a zero delay instead of triggering local backoff.

## Testing

Add coverage for header parsing, deadline countdown and expiry, error mapping after exhausted HTTP retries, and delayed stream retry notifications. Update Responses and remote compaction tests to verify that HTTP retries honor `Retry-After`.

GitOrigin-RevId: a2eff02946e5524f29e06f7ba1431e3d339261a4
This commit is contained in:
Adam Perry @ OpenAI
2026-09-23 19:53:11 +00:00
committed by copyberry
parent ab021e9f13
commit 9d8de19674
28 changed files with 430 additions and 87 deletions
+25 -5
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@@ -1,23 +1,25 @@
use super::*;
use base64::Engine;
use codex_http_client::RetryAfter;
use codex_protocol::protocol::CodexErrorInfo;
use codex_protocol::protocol::RateLimitReachedType;
use pretty_assertions::assert_eq;
#[test]
fn map_api_error_maps_server_overloaded() {
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::ServerOverloaded);
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::ServerOverloaded { retry_after: None });
assert!(matches!(err.details(), CodexErrorDetails::ServerOverloaded));
}
#[test]
fn map_api_error_preserves_retry_delay() {
#[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]
async fn map_api_error_preserves_retry_delay() {
let retry_delay = std::time::Duration::from_secs(17);
let retry_after = RetryAfter::from_delay(retry_delay).expect("retry advice");
for (error, expected_code, expected_message) in [
(
ApiError::Retryable {
message: "retry later".to_string(),
delay: Some(retry_delay),
retry_after: Some(retry_after),
},
CodexErrorInfo::Other,
"stream disconnected before completion: retry later",
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ fn map_api_error_preserves_retry_delay() {
(
ApiError::RateLimitExceeded {
message: "retry later".to_string(),
delay: Some(retry_delay),
retry_after: Some(retry_after),
},
CodexErrorInfo::RateLimitExceeded,
"rate limit exceeded: retry later",
@@ -36,6 +38,7 @@ fn map_api_error_preserves_retry_delay() {
(
err.to_codex_protocol_error(),
err.retry_delay(/*retry_count*/ 1),
err.retry_after(),
err.server_retry_delay(),
err.http_status_code_value(),
err.to_string(),
@@ -43,6 +46,7 @@ fn map_api_error_preserves_retry_delay() {
(
expected_code,
Some(retry_delay),
Some(retry_after),
Some(retry_delay),
None,
expected_message.to_string(),
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ fn map_api_error_distinguishes_capacity_from_slow_down() {
("unknown_error", CodexErrorInfo::Other, true),
] {
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE,
url: None,
headers: None,
@@ -85,6 +90,7 @@ fn map_api_error_maps_cloudflare_blocked_response_to_user_message() {
let mut headers = HeaderMap::new();
headers.insert(CF_RAY_HEADER, http::HeaderValue::from_static("ray-id"));
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::FORBIDDEN,
url: Some("http://example.com/blocked".to_string()),
headers: Some(headers),
@@ -120,6 +126,7 @@ fn map_api_error_maps_cyber_policy_from_400_body() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: None,
@@ -148,6 +155,7 @@ fn map_api_error_maps_wrapped_websocket_cyber_policy_from_400_body() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
url: Some("ws://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: None,
@@ -169,6 +177,7 @@ fn map_api_error_uses_cyber_policy_fallback_for_missing_message() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: None,
@@ -241,6 +250,7 @@ fn map_api_error_maps_http_and_wrapped_websocket_typed_errors() {
body["status"] = serde_json::json!(400);
}
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
url: None,
headers: None,
@@ -275,6 +285,7 @@ fn assert_misalignment_policy_violation_from_http_body(status: http::StatusCode)
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: None,
@@ -308,6 +319,7 @@ fn map_api_error_preserves_misalignment_details_from_403_body() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::FORBIDDEN,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: None,
@@ -352,6 +364,7 @@ fn map_api_error_preserves_misalignment_details_from_wrapped_websocket_error() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::FORBIDDEN,
url: Some("ws://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: None,
@@ -393,6 +406,7 @@ fn map_api_error_keeps_other_400_errors_generic() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: None,
@@ -426,6 +440,7 @@ fn map_api_error_distinguishes_http_quota_errors_from_rate_limits() {
CodexErrorInfo::UsageLimitExceeded
};
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
url: None,
headers: None,
@@ -455,6 +470,7 @@ fn map_api_error_maps_usage_limit_limit_name_header() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: Some(headers),
@@ -488,6 +504,7 @@ fn map_api_error_does_not_fallback_limit_name_to_limit_id() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: Some(headers),
@@ -537,6 +554,7 @@ fn map_api_error_copies_rate_limit_reached_type_to_usage_limit_snapshot() {
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: Some(headers),
@@ -588,6 +606,7 @@ fn map_api_error_ignores_unparseable_rate_limit_reached_type_headers() {
})
.to_string();
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::TOO_MANY_REQUESTS,
url: Some("http://example.com/v1/responses".to_string()),
headers: Some(headers),
@@ -618,6 +637,7 @@ fn map_api_error_extracts_identity_auth_details_from_headers() {
);
let err = map_api_error(ApiError::Transport(TransportError::Http {
retry_after: None,
status: http::StatusCode::UNAUTHORIZED,
url: Some("https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/models".to_string()),
headers: Some(headers),