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archive update fetched D2L as fast as responses came back. The pass is strictly sequential, but there was no floor on the gap between requests and no retry at all. Measured against a stub on a 60-topic cold pass:

avg gap 674µs   min gap 308µs   implied ~1400 req/s

Nothing in the package handled a 429 or a 5xx either. The incremental gate already keeps steady-state passes cheap (a warm pass costs 1 roster call + 1 TOC per course and zero content traffic), so the exposure is a cold archive or a bulk re-sync.

What

Jitter-first pacing. Each gap is a random duration in [N, 2N) rather than a fixed N. This is the point of the change: a fixed floor only trades an unthrottled stream for an evenly-spaced one, which is no harder to fingerprint. Default N is 50ms.

gap min=51.6ms  avg=73.1ms  max=102.1ms over 59 gaps
distinct gap values: 59 of 59

Every gap differs — there is no lockstep pattern to detect. That's a ~106x rate reduction (1400 → 13.2 req/s) while staying liberal.

The floor is measured from the previous request's start, so a response that already took 200ms satisfies the floor on its own and the pacer sleeps zero. Pacing adds no wall-clock to slow responses.

Retries for 429 and 5xx only — 3 attempts, exponential backoff with jitter, honoring Retry-After in both delta-seconds and HTTP-date form.

--request-interval tunes the floor; 0 disables pacing entirely. Retries are independent of it, so disabling pacing still backs off on a failure.

Design call: transport errors are not retried

I first wired transport errors into the retry path. That broke TestRunAbortsAfterConsecutiveTransportFailures (15 attempts against the existing bound of 5), and the test was right — retrying per-topic on a dead network is precisely what maxConsecutiveTransportFailures exists to prevent.

So retryableError returns false for transport errors and leaves them to the existing guard. That is not a regression: they were never retried before either. The result is that retries apply exactly where the server is reachable and asking us to back off, and the abort-on-dead-network path is untouched.

404/400 and expired sessions also stay unretryable — a deleted topic isn't flaky.

Also fixed

fetchTocFor decoded the TOC body without ever closing it, leaking a connection per course per pass. Pre-existing, but retries would have multiplied it.

No new dependencies

internal/retry and internal/httpclient were already in-tree. internal/retry gains a backwards-compatible DelayFor hook that can only raise the computed backoff, never lower it, so a caller cannot accidentally retry sooner than the exponential schedule already allows.

Verification

  • go build ./...
  • go vet ./...
  • go test -race ./...
  • Re-verified convergence is unaffected: warm passes still issue zero content requests
  • golangci-lint — not installed locally, left to CI

19 new tests in internal/archive/pacing_test.go (pacer arithmetic against an injected fake clock, jitter spread, Retry-After parsing, retry classification, and end-to-end throttle/recovery against a stub D2L) plus 2 for DelayFor.

Summary by Sourcery

Throttle archive request traffic and improve recovery from transient D2L failures while preserving fast handling of permanent and transport errors.

New Features:

  • Add jittered request pacing to archive updates and dry runs, configurable with --request-interval and disabled by setting it to zero.
  • Retry HTTP 429 and 5xx responses with bounded exponential backoff, jitter, and Retry-After support.

Bug Fixes:

  • Close response bodies for course and TOC fetches to prevent connection leaks.

Enhancements:

  • Extend the shared retry utility with a DelayFor hook that can honor server retry hints without shortening its computed backoff.

Documentation:

  • Document request pacing, transient-failure retries, and response-body leak fixes in the changelog.

Tests:

  • Add coverage for pacing behavior, jitter, retry classification, Retry-After parsing, recovery, retry limits, and cross-course throttling.

Archive fetched D2L as fast as responses came back: strictly sequential,
but with no floor on the gap between requests and no retry at all. On a
fast link a cold pass sustained ~1400 req/s, and nothing in the package
handled a 429 or a 5xx.

Pacing is deliberately liberal and jitter-centred. Each gap is a random
duration in [N, 2N) rather than a fixed N, so consecutive requests don't
land in an evenly-spaced pattern — a fixed floor only trades an
unthrottled stream for a fingerprintable one. Default N is 50ms; measured
gaps come out 51-102ms with every gap distinct, versus 308us minimum
before. The gap is measured from the previous request's start, so a slow
response already satisfies the floor and pacing adds no wall-clock to it.

Retries cover HTTP 429 and 5xx only, up to 3 attempts with the existing
exponential backoff plus jitter, honouring Retry-After in both
delta-seconds and HTTP-date form. Transport errors are deliberately not
retried: during a pass they mean the network is gone, and retrying them
per-topic is exactly what the existing consecutive-transport-failure
guard exists to stop. 404/400 and expired sessions stay unretryable too.

--request-interval tunes the floor; 0 disables pacing entirely. Retries
are independent of it, so disabling pacing still backs off on a failure.

Also fixes a pre-existing leak: fetchTocFor decoded the TOC body without
closing it, leaking a connection per course per pass. Retries would have
multiplied that, so it is closed now.

No new dependencies; retry and httpclient are already in-tree.
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The archive fetch pipeline now uses a shared jitter-first request pacer and targeted 429/5xx retry policy, with Retry-After support and preserved transport-failure abort behavior; the change also fixes TOC response-body leaks and exposes pacing through the CLI.

Sequence diagram for paced archive requests and transient retries

sequenceDiagram
    participant Archive
    participant Pacer
    participant Retry
    participant D2L

    Archive->>Retry: WithRetry
    Retry->>Pacer: Wait
    Pacer->>Pacer: Enforce jittered gap [N, 2N)
    Pacer->>D2L: HTTP request
    D2L-->>Pacer: 200 response
    Pacer-->>Retry: success
    Retry-->>Archive: response

    alt 429 or 5xx
        D2L-->>Pacer: statusError
        Pacer-->>Retry: retryable error
        Retry->>Retry: Apply exponential backoff with jitter
        Retry->>Retry: Raise delay when Retry-After is longer
        Retry->>Pacer: Wait
        Pacer->>D2L: Retry HTTP request
        D2L-->>Retry: recovered response
    else transport error or permanent failure
        D2L-->>Retry: non-retryable error
        Retry-->>Archive: return error
    end
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Flow diagram for archive request outcome handling

flowchart TD
    Start[Archive fetch] --> Pace[Wait for jittered request interval]
    Pace --> Request[Send D2L request]
    Request --> Status{Response outcome}
    Status -->|200| Success[Continue archive pass]
    Status -->|429 or 5xx| Retry[Retry up to 3 attempts with backoff and Retry-After]
    Retry --> Request
    Status -->|Transport error| Abort[Existing transport-failure guard]
    Status -->|400, 404, or expired session| Fail[Return non-retryable error]
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File-Level Changes

Change Details Files
Added pass-wide jittered request pacing configurable through the archive command and options.
  • Introduced a randomized gap in [N, 2N) measured from the previous request start.
  • Applied one shared pacer across course listing, TOC, topic, and file-body requests.
  • Added --request-interval, with a 50ms default and zero disabling pacing while preserving slow-response behavior.
cmd/archive.go
internal/archive/archive.go
internal/archive/pacing.go
internal/archive/pacing_test.go
CHANGELOG.md
Added targeted retries for throttling and transient server failures.
  • Retry HTTP 429 and 5xx responses up to three attempts with exponential jittered backoff.
  • Honor Retry-After delta-seconds and HTTP-date hints without allowing them to shorten computed backoff.
  • Keep transport errors, session expiration, and permanent client/resource failures unretryable.
internal/archive/pacing.go
internal/archive/archive.go
internal/retry/retry.go
internal/retry/retry_test.go
internal/archive/pacing_test.go
Improved HTTP response handling and resource cleanup.
  • Classified HTTP status failures separately from transport failures for retry decisions.
  • Closed TOC response bodies after decoding to prevent connection leaks.
  • Wrapped body-read and request failures consistently as transport errors.
internal/archive/archive.go
internal/archive/pacing.go
CHANGELOG.md

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The archive command now supports configurable request pacing for updates and diffs. Archive fetches use randomized request gaps and retry selected HTTP failures with backoff and Retry-After handling.

Changes: Archive request policy

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure archive request pacing
cmd/archive.go, internal/archive/archive.go, internal/archive/pacing.go, internal/archive/pacing_test.go
The command adds --request-interval, rejects negative values, and passes the configured value to updates and diffs. Runs and diffs initialize a pass-wide pacer. Tests cover interval resolution and pacing behavior.
Implement shared pacing and retry policy
internal/archive/pacing.go, internal/retry/retry.go, internal/archive/pacing_test.go, internal/retry/retry_test.go
The archive package adds HTTP status classification, Retry-After parsing, and paced retry handling. The retry package adds a callback that can extend computed backoff. Tests cover delay parsing, retry classification, and callback behavior.
Apply policy to archive fetches
internal/archive/archive.go, internal/archive/pacing_test.go, CHANGELOG.md
Course-list, TOC, topic, and file-body requests use the shared policy. Tests cover retries and pacing across course boundaries. The changelog documents the policy and response-body closure.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant Archive
  participant D2L
  CLI->>Archive: pass request interval to Run or Diff
  Archive->>D2L: send paced fetch request
  D2L-->>Archive: return response or error
  Archive->>D2L: retry eligible HTTP response after delay
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## Individual Comments

### Comment 1
<location path="internal/archive/archive.go" line_range="1132" />
<code_context>
-		return content.TocResponse{}, err
+		return content.TocResponse{}, &transportError{err}
 	}
+	defer func() { _ = res.Body.Close() }()
 	if res.StatusCode != 200 {
 		if res.StatusCode == 401 || res.StatusCode == 403 {
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Compressed responses remain open**

When D2L returns a compressed 429 or 5xx response to a TOC request, `res.Body.Close()` closes only the decompressor for gzip/deflate responses, and is a no-op for Brotli; the underlying HTTP response body stays open when it has not been fully consumed. A compressed throttling response therefore leaks its connection on each retry.

Make each decompression wrapper close its underlying response body, or explicitly close the original body in the archive fetch helpers.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 2
<location path="internal/archive/archive.go" line_range="1169" />
<code_context>
 	body, err := httpclient.BodyBytes(res)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, &transportError{err}
 	}
 	out, err := prettyJSON(body)
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Malformed redirects look like network outages**

When five consecutive topic or file-body requests receive a malformed redirect response, `fetchTopicFor` and `downloadFileBody` wrap every `FollowRedirects` error as a `transportError`, including non-network errors such as a redirect with no `Location`. `archiveCourseV2` then counts these as network failures and aborts after five consecutive malformed responses, instead of continuing past per-topic errors.

Wrap only errors known to come from the network transport as `transportError`, leaving redirect and request-construction errors unclassified as transport failures.

Also at `internal/archive/archive.go:1086`.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 3
<location path="internal/archive/pacing.go" line_range="164" />
<code_context>
+// retrying a broken connection faster is never the right call.
+func (o Options) paced(p *pacer, fn func() error) error {
+	_, err := retry.WithRetry(func() (struct{}, error) {
+		p.Wait()
+		return struct{}{}, fn()
+	}, retry.Options{
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Redirect hops bypass pacing**

When a paced fetch receives a redirect to another D2L URL, `paced` calls `p.Wait()` only before the fetch helper, while `FollowRedirects` sends the next request immediately. Consecutive D2L requests therefore fall below the configured interval.

Apply the pacer before every outbound request, including each redirect hop.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 4
<location path="internal/archive/pacing.go" line_range="122" />
<code_context>
+		return 0
+	}
+	if secs, err := strconv.Atoi(v); err == nil && secs >= 0 {
+		return time.Duration(secs) * time.Second
+	}
+	if t, err := http.ParseTime(v); err == nil {
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Retry hints cause excessive delays**

When a retryable response supplies an unusually large delta-seconds `Retry-After` value, `parseRetryAfter` can overflow while converting seconds to `time.Duration`, causing `DelayFor` to ignore the hint; large values that fit are passed to `retry.WithRetry` and its uncapped `sleep(d)`, potentially blocking an update for years.

Check for overflow and cap accepted `Retry-After` durations before returning them.

Also at `internal/retry/retry.go:110`.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 5
<location path="internal/retry/retry.go" line_range="106-108" />
<code_context>
-		sleep(backoff(i, opts.BaseDelayMs))
+		d := backoff(i, opts.BaseDelayMs)
+		if opts.DelayFor != nil {
+			if hint := opts.DelayFor(i, err); hint > d {
+				d = hint
+			}
+		}
+		sleep(d)
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Default attempts discard retry hints**

When a caller supplies `DelayFor` but leaves `Attempts` at its default zero value, `WithRetry` replaces the entire options struct with `DefaultOptions()` when `Attempts` is zero, discarding `DelayFor`; callers that use the default attempt count therefore retry without the supplied server hint.

Apply default attempts and base delay without replacing other caller-supplied options, including `DelayFor`.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 6
<location path="internal/retry/retry.go" line_range="106-110" />
<code_context>
-		sleep(backoff(i, opts.BaseDelayMs))
+		d := backoff(i, opts.BaseDelayMs)
+		if opts.DelayFor != nil {
+			if hint := opts.DelayFor(i, err); hint > d {
+				d = hint
+			}
+		}
+		sleep(d)
 	}
 	return zero, last
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Server hints suppress retry jitter**

When multiple archive clients receive the same Retry-After value that exceeds their computed backoff, `WithRetry` replaces the jittered backoff with the exact `Retry-After` hint whenever the hint is longer. Clients receiving the same common hint therefore retry in lockstep, recreating a burst against the throttled endpoint instead of retaining the jitter promised for retries.

Preserve the Retry-After duration as a minimum while adding randomized delay above it, so clients do not all retry at the same instant.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 7
<location path="internal/archive/pacing.go" line_range="193" />
<code_context>
+		floor = *o.RequestInterval
+	}
+	if floor < 0 {
+		floor = 0
+	}
+	return newPacer(floor)
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Negative intervals disable pacing**

When the configured request interval is negative, `limiter` converts every negative interval to zero, so a caller typo such as `--request-interval=-1s` silently disables the pacing intended to protect D2L instead of reporting invalid input.

Reject negative intervals with a clear error and reserve zero as the only value that disables pacing.
</issue_to_address>

### Comment 8
<location path="internal/archive/pacing_test.go" line_range="449" />
<code_context>
+		t.Fatalf("TopicsFetched = %d, want %d", res.TopicsFetched, topics)
+	}
+	// 25 topics unthrottled must not cost anywhere near the default floor.
+	if budget := time.Duration(topics) * DefaultRequestInterval; elapsed >= budget {
+		t.Errorf("elapsed = %v with pacing disabled, want < %v", elapsed, budget)
+	}
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Unpaced test can flake**

When the test machine is heavily loaded or the process is descheduled during the run, testRunWithoutPacingIsFast uses a real elapsed-time ceiling at `pacing_test.go:449`; a correct run fails if machine load or scheduler delays push the local-stub run past 1.25 seconds.

Verify that zero pacing adds no waits with an injected clock or pacer seam instead of a strict wall-clock ceiling.
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### Comment 9
<location path="internal/retry/retry_test.go" line_range="90" />
<code_context>
+	// pacer is the pass-wide rate limiter, created from RequestInterval on
+	// first use so one Run/Diff shares a single budget across all courses.
+	pacer *pacer
 }

 // baseURL returns the effective D2L base, defaulting to ua.D2LBase.
</code_context>
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**Retry delay behavior unverified**

When `WithRetry` ignores `DelayFor` or uses a shorter hint in place of the computed backoff, testDelayForRaisesTheFloor only checks the result and call count at `retry_test.go:87-89`, so ignoring `DelayFor` passes. TestDelayForCannotShortenBackoff only checks the error and call count at `:104-105`, so replacing the backoff with the 1ns hint also passes.

Assert the actual delay using an injectable sleep function or another deterministic timing seam.

Also at `internal/retry/retry_test.go:106`.
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🟡 Medium · Malformed redirects look like network outages

When five consecutive topic or file-body requests receive a malformed redirect response, fetchTopicFor and downloadFileBody wrap every FollowRedirects error as a transportError, including non-network errors such as a redirect with no Location. archiveCourseV2 then counts these as network failures and aborts after five consecutive malformed responses, instead of continuing past per-topic errors.

Wrap only errors known to come from the network transport as transportError, leaving redirect and request-construction errors unclassified as transport failures.

Also at internal/archive/archive.go:1086.

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In `internal/archive/archive.go` at line 1169:

**Malformed redirects look like network outages**

When five consecutive topic or file-body requests receive a malformed redirect response, `fetchTopicFor` and `downloadFileBody` wrap every `FollowRedirects` error as a `transportError`, including non-network errors such as a redirect with no `Location`. `archiveCourseV2` then counts these as network failures and aborts after five consecutive malformed responses, instead of continuing past per-topic errors.

Wrap only errors known to come from the network transport as `transportError`, leaving redirect and request-construction errors unclassified as transport failures.

Also at `internal/archive/archive.go:1086`.

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Pre-existing, and left alone here.

fetchTopicFor and downloadFileBody wrapped FollowRedirects errors as transportError before this branch (verified against main), so five malformed redirects already tripped the consecutive-transport-failure abort.

I did extend the pattern to fetchTocFor and fetchCoursesPage, where it has no practical effect — those errors are fatal to the pass regardless, so nothing is miscounted.

A correct fix is to only wrap errors that actually came from the transport (errors.As for *url.Error, which is what client.Do returns) and let redirect-construction errors through unclassified. That changes the error taxonomy with existing tests attached, so I'd rather do it as its own change. Want me to?

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Yes—please handle it as a separate follow-up. Since the topic and file FollowRedirects wrapping predates this PR, I agree it shouldn’t block this change; thanks for checking against main.

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TestPacerNilAndNegativeAreSafe takes *testing.T but never uses it, since
the assertion is that the nil and negative-floor guards do not panic. A
panic already fails a Go test, so the calls are the whole test.
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Four issues raised by CodeRabbit and cubic on #16.

fetchCoursesPage never closed its response body, leaking a connection per
course-list page. The leak predates this branch, but retrying 429/5xx
multiplies it threefold, and paced's own contract requires fn to release
any body it opens. Both non-200 and non-JSON return paths escaped it.

parseRetryAfter applied the server's value with no upper bound. Archive is
sequential, so "Retry-After: 86400" — or an HTTP-date days out — would hang
the whole pass with no progress output. Clamped to 60s.

The clamp also fixes an overflow: time.Duration(secs) * time.Second wraps
negative for absurd values like 10000000000, and the helper then silently
fell back to the shorter backoff. Clamping before the multiply removes
that. A value too wide for int64 now clamps too, rather than failing
Atoi and retrying the throttle immediately.

TestRunPacesRequestsAcrossCourses used a single course, so it would have
passed against a per-course pacer — the exact regression it claims to
guard. It now spans two courses and asserts on the minimum observed gap
across every request, so an unpaced course boundary fails it.

CHANGELOG said retries happen "up to 3 times"; there are 3 attempts total.
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Three issues from Sourcery.

WithRetry substituted the entire Options struct with DefaultOptions()
whenever Attempts was zero, silently discarding a caller-supplied DelayFor.
Defaults are now applied field by field. A caller who passes only a hint and
leaves Attempts alone would have lost the hint and retried on the plain
backoff.

When a Retry-After hint exceeded the computed backoff, the hint replaced the
delay outright. Every client handed the same Retry-After would then wake at
the same instant and recreate the burst the backoff existed to prevent —
the exact lockstep this branch set out to avoid. The hint is now a floor and
the jitter goes back on top, so retries stay spread out.

A negative --request-interval was mapped to 0, meaning a typo like -1s
silently disabled the pacing rather than reporting bad input. Zero remains
the only way to turn pacing off; negative now falls back to the default.

Tests: TestRunWithoutPacingIsFast asserted a wall-clock ceiling that could
flake on a loaded machine. It now injects a pacer with a counting sleep and
asserts zero sleeps directly. The two DelayFor tests only checked result and
call count, so ignoring the hint entirely would have passed; they now assert
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CodeRabbit and cubic both caught that my earlier strengthening of this test
did not work.

Leaving Attempts at its zero value makes WithRetry substitute the 250ms
default BaseDelayMs, so the backoff alone spans 250-500ms — comfortably
wide enough to clear the test's 300ms assertion with DelayFor ignored
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🟡 Minor · Close the underlying body at the decompression boundary. · pacing.go:187-207

internal/archive/pacing.go:187-207
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Close the underlying body at the decompression boundary.

Options.paced retries 429 and 5xx responses up to three times. The TOC, topic, and course-page helpers return on these statuses without reading the response body. httpclient.Fetch replaces each compressed response body with a decompression wrapper, but closing that wrapper does not close the underlying transport body. Each retry can therefore retain a transport resource. Wrap the decoder so its Close method also closes the original body.

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 func decompressBody(res *http.Response) io.ReadCloser {
 	if res.Body == nil || res.ContentLength == 0 {
 		return res.Body
 	}
+	underlying := res.Body
 	enc := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(res.Header.Get("Content-Encoding")))
 	var reader io.ReadCloser
@@
 	res.Header.Del("Content-Encoding")
 	res.Header.Del("Content-Length")
 	res.ContentLength = -1
-	return reader
+	return &decompressedBody{
+		ReadCloser: reader,
+		underlying: underlying,
+	}
 }
+
+type decompressedBody struct {
+	io.ReadCloser
+	underlying io.ReadCloser
+}
+
+func (b *decompressedBody) Close() error {
+	decoderErr := b.ReadCloser.Close()
+	bodyErr := b.underlying.Close()
+	if decoderErr != nil {
+		return decoderErr
+	}
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