Auth, Retries & Timeout

Many APIs require authentication, and networks are sometimes unreliable. Layerz provides various authentication methods, along with retry and timeout settings to guard against failures.

Auth

• None — No authentication
• Bearer Token — Sends a token in the header
• Basic — Username/password based
• API Key — Sends a key in the Header or Query
• OAuth 2.0 — Client Credentials grant. The received token is cached in memory.

You can use binding tokens in auth values too, so a token or key can be pulled from project data.

Retries and Timeout

• Timeout — If a request exceeds this time, it's treated as a failure.
• Max Retries — The maximum number of times to retry on failure
• Retry Delay — The interval between retries (grows progressively with exponential backoff)

Retries happen for timeouts, connection errors, and 408/429/5xx responses. This keeps things working reliably even during temporary network problems or server congestion.