Index: http-transport.scm
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--- http-transport.scm
+++ http-transport.scm
@@ -229,11 +229,16 @@
 			   (debug:print 0 "FATAL ERROR: http-transport:client-api-send-receive called with no server info")
 			   (exit 1))))
 	 (res        #f))
     (handle-exceptions
      exn
-     #f
+     (if (> numretries 0)
+	 (begin
+	   (mutex-unlock! *http-mutex*)
+	   (thread-sleep! 10)
+	   (http-transport:client-api-send-receive run-id serverdat cmd params (- numretries 1)))
+	 #f)
      (begin
        (debug:print-info 11 "fullurl=" fullurl ", cmd=" cmd ", params=" params ", run-id=" run-id "\n")
        ;; set up the http-client here
        (max-retry-attempts 5)
        ;; consider all requests indempotent