net/http: make Transport retry non-idempotent requests if no bytes written

If the server failed on us before we even tried to write any bytes,
it's safe to retry the request on a new connection, regardless of the
HTTP method/idempotence.

Fixes #15723

Change-Id: I25360f82aac530d12d2b3eef02c43ced86e62906
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/27117
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <[email protected]>
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <[email protected]>

Author: bradfitz

src/net/http/transport.go

@@ -421,19 +421,15 @@ func (pc *persistConn) shouldRetryRequest(req *Request, err error) bool {
 		// our request (as opposed to sending an error).
 		return false
 	}
+	if _, ok := err.(nothingWrittenError); ok {
+		// We never wrote anything, so it's safe to retry.
+		return true
+	}
 	if !req.isReplayable() {
 		// Don't retry non-idempotent requests.
-
-		// TODO: swap the nothingWrittenError and isReplayable checks,
-		// putting the "if nothingWrittenError => return true" case
-		// first, per golang.org/issue/15723
 		return false
 	}
-	switch err.(type) {
-	case nothingWrittenError:
-		// We never wrote anything, so it's safe to retry.
-		return true
-	case transportReadFromServerError:
+	if _, ok := err.(transportReadFromServerError); ok {
 		// We got some non-EOF net.Conn.Read failure reading
 		// the 1st response byte from the server.
 		return true

src/net/http/transport_internal_test.go

@@ -72,3 +72,70 @@ func newLocalListener(t *testing.T) net.Listener {
 	}
 	return ln
 }
+
+func dummyRequest(method string) *Request {
+	req, err := NewRequest(method, "http://fake.tld/", nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return req
+}
+
+func TestTransportShouldRetryRequest(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		pc  *persistConn
+		req *Request
+
+		err  error
+		want bool
+	}{
+		0: {
+			pc:   &persistConn{reused: false},
+			req:  dummyRequest("POST"),
+			err:  nothingWrittenError{},
+			want: false,
+		},
+		1: {
+			pc:   &persistConn{reused: true},
+			req:  dummyRequest("POST"),
+			err:  nothingWrittenError{},
+			want: true,
+		},
+		2: {
+			pc:   &persistConn{reused: true},
+			req:  dummyRequest("POST"),
+			err:  http2ErrNoCachedConn,
+			want: true,
+		},
+		3: {
+			pc:   &persistConn{reused: true},
+			req:  dummyRequest("POST"),
+			err:  errMissingHost,
+			want: false,
+		},
+		4: {
+			pc:   &persistConn{reused: true},
+			req:  dummyRequest("POST"),
+			err:  transportReadFromServerError{},
+			want: false,
+		},
+		5: {
+			pc:   &persistConn{reused: true},
+			req:  dummyRequest("GET"),
+			err:  transportReadFromServerError{},
+			want: true,
+		},
+		6: {
+			pc:   &persistConn{reused: true},
+			req:  dummyRequest("GET"),
+			err:  errServerClosedIdle,
+			want: true,
+		},
+	}
+	for i, tt := range tests {
+		got := tt.pc.shouldRetryRequest(tt.req, tt.err)
+		if got != tt.want {
+			t.Errorf("%d. shouldRetryRequest = %v; want %v", i, got, tt.want)
+		}
+	}
+}