chore: handle timeout errors in API requests (DEV-2513)

[jnussbaum]

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[linear]

DEV-2513 handle timeout errors in API requests

Currently, most API calls are executed once, and if they fail due to a timeout, nothing is done to recover. This has recently created some problems, when connectivity on users' machines was bad.

One idea how to improve it: Create a convenience method that executes the API call several times, with waiting intervals, each time increasing the timeout.

[BalduinLandolt]

I find the naming slightly misleading: try_api_call made me thing that it attempts a call to DSP-API, but it can actually be any HTTP call. So maybe http_call_with_retry would have been clearer to me. But that's obviously a detail.