Increase delay when inquiry fails.

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# 2026-04, Arjo Segers

#   Fixed definition of bounding box for global selection.

#   Added delays to avoid rate limit errors from STAC catalogue inquiry.

#   Added increasing delays to avoid rate limit errors from STAC catalogue inquiry.

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            maxtry = 10

            ntry = 1

            nsec_wait = 5

            nsec_wait_max = 600

            # loop until success or too many errors:

            while True:

                # until success:

                        time.sleep(nsec_wait)

                        ntry += 1

                        logging.warning(f"{indent}    attempt {ntry} / {maxtry} ...")

                        # next time, wait a bit longer, but not too long ...

                        nsec_wait = min(nsec_wait * 2, nsec_wait_max)

                    # endif

                # endtry