Client resiliance to provider server errors

[zaksoup]

What happens now?

Some providers have implementation issues with their MDS endpoints. It's common for standard requests to result in un-explained 500 errors that will disappear when retrying or for the remote end to disconnect mid-request.

What should happen?

I'd like to request that we investigate adding logic to retry requests on certain conditions, like the remote disconnecting mid-request or receiving a 500 error

How do we do that?

I'm opening this issue to discuss what the recommended course of action would be to improve the resilience of the client library.