* to limit the retries by the class of errors and number of attempts.  To get the number of
 * attempts to the current point use this function.
 *
 * ```java
 * private int responseCount(Response response) {
 *   int result = 1;
 *   while ((response = response.priorResponse()) != null) {
 *     result++;
 *   }
 *   return result;
 * }
 * ```
 *
 * [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817