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 ## Retrying cases that fail after a seeming success
 
-It's possible for a request to succeed, but then for later processing to fail, and sometimes this requires retrying the full request. E.g. a GET that returns a lot of data may "succeed" but the connection may drop while reading all of the data.
+It's possible for a request to succeed in the sense that the expected response headers are received, but then to encounter network-level errors while reading the response body. In go-retryablehttp's most basic usage, this error would not be retryable, due to the out-of-band handling of the response body. In some cases it may be desirable to handle the response body as part of the retryable operation.
 
 In such a case, you can use `DoWithResponseHandler` (or `GetWithResponseHandler`) rather than `Do` (or `Get`). A toy example (which will retry the full request and succeed on the second attempt) is shown below: