http: retry safe DAV methods on transient aiohttp disconnects; cli: gather with return_exceptions to allow in-flight backoffs to finish

- Retry ServerDisconnectedError/ServerTimeoutError/ClientConnectionError/asyncio.TimeoutError for GET/HEAD/OPTIONS/PROPFIND/REPORT
- Keep original rate-limit handling (429, Google 403 usageLimits)
- In CLI, avoid cancelling sibling tasks so per-request backoff can complete; re-raise first failure after all tasks finish

vdirsyncer/cli/__init__.py

@@ -147,7 +147,14 @@ def sync(ctx, collections, force_delete):
                         )
                     )
 
-            await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+            # `return_exceptions=True` ensures that the event loop lives long enough for
+            # backoffs to be able to finish
+            gathered = await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions=True)
+            # but now we need to manually check for and propogate a single failure after
+            # allowing all tasks to finish in order to keep exit status non-zero
+            failures = [e for e in gathered if isinstance(e, BaseException)]
+            if failures:
+                raise failures[0]
 
     asyncio.run(main(collections))
 

vdirsyncer/http.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import asyncio
 import logging
 import os
 import platform
@@ -11,6 +12,9 @@ from ssl import create_default_context
 
 import aiohttp
 import requests.auth
+from aiohttp import ClientConnectionError
+from aiohttp import ServerDisconnectedError
+from aiohttp import ServerTimeoutError
 from requests.utils import parse_dict_header
 from tenacity import retry
 from tenacity import retry_if_exception_type
@@ -152,6 +156,20 @@ def prepare_client_cert(cert):
     return cert
 
 
+class TransientNetworkError(exceptions.Error):
+    """Transient network condition that should be retried."""
+
+
+def _is_safe_to_retry_method(method: str) -> bool:
+    """Returns True if the HTTP method is safe/idempotent to retry.
+
+    We consider these safe for our WebDAV usage:
+    - GET, HEAD, OPTIONS: standard safe methods
+    - PROPFIND, REPORT: read-only DAV queries used for listing/fetching
+    """
+    return method.upper() in {"GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS", "PROPFIND", "REPORT"}
+
+
 class UsageLimitReached(exceptions.Error):
     pass
 
@@ -190,7 +208,10 @@ async def _is_quota_exceeded_google(response: aiohttp.ClientResponse) -> bool:
 @retry(
     stop=stop_after_attempt(5),
     wait=wait_exponential(multiplier=1, min=4, max=10),
-    retry=retry_if_exception_type(UsageLimitReached),
+    retry=(
+        retry_if_exception_type(UsageLimitReached)
+        | retry_if_exception_type(TransientNetworkError)
+    ),
     reraise=True,
 )
 async def request(
@@ -242,7 +263,21 @@ async def request(
     while num_401 < 2:
         if auth:
             headers["Authorization"] = auth.get_auth_header(method, url)
+        try:
             response = await session.request(method, url, headers=headers, **kwargs)
+        except (
+            ServerDisconnectedError,
+            ServerTimeoutError,
+            ClientConnectionError,
+            asyncio.TimeoutError,
+        ) as e:
+            # Retry only if the method is safe/idempotent for our DAV use
+            if _is_safe_to_retry_method(method):
+                logger.debug(
+                    f"Transient network error on {method} {url}: {e}. Will retry."
+                )
+                raise TransientNetworkError(str(e)) from e
+            raise e from None
 
         if response.ok or not auth:
             # we don't need to do the 401-loop if we don't do auth in the first place