At Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:50:56 +0200,
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
> Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org> writes:
> 
> […]
> 
> I think this should use url-https instead for https connections.

This patch modifies url-https to support an optional retry-buffer
argument, making this better approach possible.