Try removing retry on ReadError/ReadTimeout

synapseclient/api/entity_services.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from async_lru import alru_cache
 
 from synapseclient.core.exceptions import SynapseHTTPError
+from synapseclient.core.retry import RETRYABLE_CONNECTION_EXCEPTIONS_NO_READ_ISSUES
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from synapseclient import Synapse
@@ -42,7 +43,12 @@ async def post_entity(
 
     try:
         return await client.rest_post_async(
-            uri="/entity", body=json.dumps(request), params=params
+            uri="/entity",
+            body=json.dumps(request),
+            params=params,
+            retry_policy={
+                "retry_exceptions": RETRYABLE_CONNECTION_EXCEPTIONS_NO_READ_ISSUES
+            },
         )
     except SynapseHTTPError:
         if "name" in request and "parentId" in request:

synapseclient/core/retry.py

@@ -73,6 +73,21 @@
     "SSLZeroReturnError",
 ]
 
+RETRYABLE_CONNECTION_EXCEPTIONS_NO_READ_ISSUES = [
+    "ChunkedEncodingError",
+    "ConnectionError",
+    "ConnectionResetError",
+    "Timeout",
+    "timeout",
+    # HTTPX Specific connection exceptions:
+    "RemoteProtocolError",
+    "TimeoutException",
+    "ConnectError",
+    "ConnectTimeout",
+    # SSL Specific exceptions:
+    "SSLZeroReturnError",
+]
+
 DEBUG_EXCEPTION = "calling %s resulted in an Exception"