0048-laravel-http-client-resilience

What problem does it solve?

Outbound HTTP requests can fail unpredictably due to timeouts, transient network issues, or unstable upstream services, leading to unclear behavior and hard-to-debug outages.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Explicit timeouts and bounded retries: Apply a timeout and a limited retry strategy with backoff to handle transient failures safely.
• Failure-aware handling with observable context: Log request/response context when responses are not successful, capturing status and a safe excerpt of the body for diagnostics.
• Scoped configuration for clean request building: Use base URLs, headers, and request parameters in a single, consistent call flow for typical API consumption scenarios (e.g., fetching resources from a JSON API).

Quick Start

Update your Laravel HTTP client code to set a timeout, add a limited retry with backoff, and log status plus a truncated response body whenever the call is unsuccessful.