Implement exponential back-off mechanism and enforce it at the URLRequestHttpJob level.

chrome/common/net/url_fetcher.h

Index: chrome/common/net/url_fetcher.h
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--- chrome/common/net/url_fetcher.h	(revision 67336)
+++ chrome/common/net/url_fetcher.h	(working copy)
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #include <string>
+#include <vector>
 
 #include "base/message_loop.h"
 #include "base/ref_counted.h"
@@ -152,6 +153,10 @@
   // after backoff_delay() elapses. URLFetcher has it set to true by default.
   void set_automatically_retry_on_5xx(bool retry);
 
+  int max_retries() const { return max_retries_; }
+
+  void set_max_retries(int max_retries) { max_retries_ = max_retries; }
+
   // Returns the back-off delay before the request will be retried,
   // when a 5xx response was received.
   base::TimeDelta backoff_delay() const { return backoff_delay_; }
@@ -174,6 +179,9 @@
   // Return the URL that this fetcher is processing.
   const GURL& url() const;
 
+  // Reports that the received content was malformed.
+  void ReceivedContentWasMalformed();
+
   // Cancels all existing URLRequests.  Will notify the URLFetcher::Delegates.
   // Note that any new URLFetchers created while this is running will not be
   // cancelled.  Typically, one would call this in the CleanUp() method of an IO
@@ -203,6 +211,8 @@
   bool automatically_retry_on_5xx_;
   // Back-off time delay. 0 by default.
   base::TimeDelta backoff_delay_;
+  // Maximum retries allowed.
+  int max_retries_;
 
   static bool g_interception_enabled;