Retry HTTP call on connection failure in sendHTTPReponse() + "Max retry" exception

RemoteBuildConfiguration.java

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        } catch (IOException e) {
            
            //If we have connectionRetryLimit set to > 0 then retry that many times.
            if( numberOfAttempts <= retryLimit) {
                listener.getLogger().println("Connection to remote server failed, waiting for to retry - " + this.pollInterval + " seconds until next attempt.");
                
                // Sleep for 'pollInterval' seconds.
                // Sleep takes miliseconds so need to convert this.pollInterval to milisecopnds (x 1000)
                try {
                    // Could do with a better way of sleeping...
                    Thread.sleep(this.pollInterval * 1000);
                } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                    this.failBuild(ex, listener);
                }

 
                listener.getLogger().println("Retry attempt #" + numberOfAttempts + " out of " + retryLimit );
                numberOfAttempts++;
                responseObject = sendHTTPCall(urlString, requestType, build, listener, numberOfAttempts);
            }else if(numberOfAttempts > retryLimit){
                //reached the maximum number of retries, time to fail
                this.failBuild(new Exception("Max number of connection retries have been exeeded."), listener);
            }else{
                //something failed with the connection and we retried the max amount of times... so throw an exception to mark the build as failed.
                this.failBuild(e, listener);
            }
            
        } finally {
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