Retry when tor fails
Some scenarios uses the live Tor network, which is not entirely reliable, so we may get failing scenarios when in fact we just happened to pick a Tor circuit that’s too slow, or even one that’s broken but Tor fails to remedy the situation.
I’ve never experienced it yet, and I’ve run the test suite on pretty bad connections, so perhaps let’s just wait a while and see if this problem happens in practice, and then retag this ticket
todo/code? —intrigeri
For this reason we should tag such scenarios with @uses_tor, and
create an Around('@uses_tor') hook which re-tries those scenarios some
number of times before actually failing it. That hook should retry only
when it catches some custom exception (e.g. TorFailed) that we make
steps throw whenever something that uses Tor times out, but it should
not retry for other exceptions.
Related issues
- Related to #9478 (closed)
Original created by @tails on 5770 (Redmine)