async def makeHttpRequest(method, url, payload, headers, retries=utils.MAX_RETRIES, session=None):
    """ Make an HTTP request and retry it until success, return request """
    retry = -1
    response = None
    implicit = False
    if session is None:
        implicit = True
        session = aiohttp.ClientSession()

    def cleanup():
        if implicit:
            loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
            loop.run_until_complete(session.close())

    try:
        while True:
            retry += 1
            # if this isn't the first retry then we sleep
            if retry > 0:
                snooze = float(retry * retry) / 10.0
                log.info('Sleeping %0.2f seconds for exponential backoff', snooze)
                await asyncio.sleep(snooze)

            # Seek payload to start, if it is a file
            if hasattr(payload, 'seek'):
                payload.seek(0)

            log.debug('Making attempt %d', retry)
            try:
                with async_timeout.timeout(60):
                    response = await makeSingleHttpRequest(method, url, payload, headers, session)
            except aiohttp.ClientError as rerr:
                if retry < retries:
                    log.warn('Retrying because of: %s' % rerr)
                    continue
                # raise a connection exception
                raise rerr
            except ValueError as rerr:
                log.warn('ValueError from aiohttp: redirect to non-http or https')
                raise rerr
            except RuntimeError as rerr:
                log.warn('RuntimeError from aiohttp: session closed')
                raise rerr
            # Handle non 2xx status code and retry if possible
            status = response.status
            if 500 <= status and status < 600 and retry < retries:
                if retry < retries:
                    log.warn('Retrying because of: %d status' % status)
                    continue
                else:
                    raise exceptions.TaskclusterRestFailure("Unknown Server Error", superExc=None)
            return response
    finally:
        cleanup()
    # This code-path should be unreachable
    assert False, "Error from last retry should have been raised!"