Why does HttpClient continue to fail during subsequent attempts with Polly?

Question

I have several methods that require an internet connection. If the connection fails, I want to repeat the method for a period of time before the failure. Since the application can happily continue to work in anticipation of a successful response, I want to do this asynchronously.

I am using Polly (5.3.1) to implement asynchronous repeat logic using Tasks.

I simulate a disconnect by starting a process with Wi-Fi turned off and turning it on while re-viewing. I expected that after turning on my connection again, the method will be successful, if I try again, what I see is that the method continues to return HttpRequestExceptionas if the connection was suspended until the repetition completes, and in which he gives the moment to the caller.
If I run the method with Wi-Fi turned on as usual, it will succeed right away.

// Get the HTML of a web page 'async'
public async Task<string> GetHtmlAsync(string url)
{
    using (var client = new HttpClient())
    using (var response = await client.GetAsync(url))
    {
        response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
        using (var content = response.Content)
        {
            return await content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        }
    }
}

// Wrapper for Polly to create an async retry policy
public async Task<TResult> RetryAsync<TResult, TException>(Task<TResult> task, int retries, int seconds) where TException : Exception
{
    return await Policy
               .Handle<TException>()
               .WaitAndRetryAsync(retries, wait => TimeSpan.FromSeconds(seconds))
               .ExecuteAsync(async () => await task);
}

// Call the method, it will retry 12 times with a gap of 5 seconds between tries
var html = await RetryAsync<string, HttpRequestException>(GetHtmlAsync("https://www.google.co.uk"), 12, 5);

Why does the method continue to fail, even though my connection is up and running during subsequent attempts?

Answer 1

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public async Task<string> GetHtmlAsync(string url)
{
    using (var client = new HttpClient())
    using (var response = await client.GetAsync(url))
    {
        response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
        using (var content = response.Content)
        {
            return await content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        }
    }
}

// Wrapper for Polly to create an async retry policy
public async Task<TResult> RetryAsync<TResult, TException>(
    Func<Task<TResult>> taskInitiator, int retries, int seconds) where TException : Exception
{
    return await Policy
               .Handle<TException>()
               .WaitAndRetryAsync(retries, wait => TimeSpan.FromSeconds(seconds))
               .ExecuteAsync(async () => await taskInitiator());
}

// Call the method, it will retry 12 times with a gap of 5 seconds between tries
var html = await RetryAsync<string, HttpRequestException>(
    () => GetHtmlAsync("https://www.google.co.uk"), 12, 5);