diff --git a/client.go b/client.go
index 1a03efa3..8bc1ab48 100644
--- a/client.go
+++ b/client.go
@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ type (
 
 	// ErrorHook type is for reacting to request errors, called after all retries were attempted
 	ErrorHook func(*Request, error)
+
+	// Executor executes a Request
+	Executor func(req *Request) (*Response, error)
+
+	// ExecutorMiddleware type wraps the execution of a request
+	ExecutorMiddleware func(req *Request, next Executor) (*Response, error)
 )
 
 // Client struct is used to create Resty client with client level settings,
@@ -140,6 +146,7 @@ type Client struct {
 	requestLog         RequestLogCallback
 	responseLog        ResponseLogCallback
 	errorHooks         []ErrorHook
+	executor           Executor
 }
 
 // User type is to hold an username and password information
@@ -444,6 +451,28 @@ func (c *Client) OnError(h ErrorHook) *Client {
 	return c
 }
 
+// WrapExecutor wraps the execution of a request, granting full access to the request, response, and error.
+// Runs on every request attempt, before any request hook and after any response or error hook.
+// Can be useful to introduce throttling or add hooks that always fire, regardless of success or error.
+//
+//		c.WrapExecutor(func(req *Request, next Executor) (*Response, error) {
+//			// do something with the Request
+//			// e.g. Acquire a lock
+//
+//			resp, err := next(req)
+//			// do something with the Response or error
+//			// e.g. Release a lock
+//
+//			return resp, err
+//		})
+func (c *Client) WrapExecutor(e ExecutorMiddleware) *Client {
+	next := c.executor
+	c.executor = func(req *Request) (*Response, error) {
+		return e(req, next)
+	}
+	return c
+}
+
 // SetPreRequestHook method sets the given pre-request function into resty client.
 // It is called right before the request is fired.
 //
@@ -900,14 +929,14 @@ func (c *Client) execute(req *Request) (*Response, error) {
 	// to modify the *resty.Request object
 	for _, f := range c.udBeforeRequest {
 		if err = f(c, req); err != nil {
-			return nil, wrapNoRetryErr(err)
+			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
 
 	// resty middlewares
 	for _, f := range c.beforeRequest {
 		if err = f(c, req); err != nil {
-			return nil, wrapNoRetryErr(err)
+			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -918,12 +947,12 @@ func (c *Client) execute(req *Request) (*Response, error) {
 	// call pre-request if defined
 	if c.preReqHook != nil {
 		if err = c.preReqHook(c, req.RawRequest); err != nil {
-			return nil, wrapNoRetryErr(err)
+			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
 
 	if err = requestLogger(c, req); err != nil {
-		return nil, wrapNoRetryErr(err)
+		return nil, err
 	}
 
 	req.RawRequest.Body = newRequestBodyReleaser(req.RawRequest.Body, req.bodyBuf)
@@ -938,7 +967,7 @@ func (c *Client) execute(req *Request) (*Response, error) {
 
 	if err != nil || req.notParseResponse || c.notParseResponse {
 		response.setReceivedAt()
-		return response, err
+		return response, wrapTemporaryError(err)
 	}
 
 	if !req.isSaveResponse {
@@ -951,7 +980,7 @@ func (c *Client) execute(req *Request) (*Response, error) {
 				body, err = gzip.NewReader(body)
 				if err != nil {
 					response.setReceivedAt()
-					return response, err
+					return response, wrapTemporaryError(err)
 				}
 				defer closeq(body)
 			}
@@ -959,7 +988,7 @@ func (c *Client) execute(req *Request) (*Response, error) {
 
 		if response.body, err = ioutil.ReadAll(body); err != nil {
 			response.setReceivedAt()
-			return response, err
+			return response, wrapTemporaryError(err)
 		}
 
 		response.size = int64(len(response.body))
@@ -974,7 +1003,7 @@ func (c *Client) execute(req *Request) (*Response, error) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	return response, wrapNoRetryErr(err)
+	return response, err
 }
 
 // getting TLS client config if not exists then create one
@@ -1092,6 +1121,8 @@ func createClient(hc *http.Client) *Client {
 	// Logger
 	c.SetLogger(createLogger())
 
+	c.executor = c.execute
+
 	// default before request middlewares
 	c.beforeRequest = []RequestMiddleware{
 		parseRequestURL,
diff --git a/client_test.go b/client_test.go
index 84ae715e..1e3ce2d8 100644
--- a/client_test.go
+++ b/client_test.go
@@ -735,6 +735,45 @@ func TestClientOnResponseError(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestWrapExecutor(t *testing.T) {
+	ts := createGetServer(t)
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	t.Run("abort", func(t *testing.T) {
+		c := dc()
+		c.WrapExecutor(func(req *Request, next Executor) (*Response, error) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("abort")
+		})
+
+		resp, err := c.R().Get(ts.URL)
+		assertNil(t, resp)
+		assertEqual(t, "abort", err.Error())
+	})
+
+	t.Run("noop", func(t *testing.T) {
+		c := dc()
+		c.WrapExecutor(func(req *Request, next Executor) (*Response, error) {
+			return next(req)
+		})
+
+		resp, err := c.R().Get(ts.URL)
+		assertNil(t, err)
+		assertEqual(t, 200, resp.StatusCode())
+	})
+
+	t.Run("add error", func(t *testing.T) {
+		c := dc()
+		c.WrapExecutor(func(req *Request, next Executor) (*Response, error) {
+			resp, _ := next(req)
+			return resp, fmt.Errorf("error")
+		})
+
+		resp, err := c.R().Get(ts.URL)
+		assertEqual(t, "error", err.Error())
+		assertEqual(t, 200, resp.StatusCode())
+	})
+}
+
 func TestResponseError(t *testing.T) {
 	err := errors.New("error message")
 	re := &ResponseError{
diff --git a/example_test.go b/example_test.go
index 2d8d3f74..9522855c 100644
--- a/example_test.go
+++ b/example_test.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
 
 	"golang.org/x/net/proxy"
@@ -241,3 +242,35 @@ func Example_socks5Proxy() {
 func printOutput(resp *resty.Response, err error) {
 	fmt.Println(resp, err)
 }
+
+//
+// Throttling
+//
+
+func ExampleClient_throttling() {
+	// Consider the use of proper throttler, possibly waiting for resources to free up
+	// e.g. https://github.com/throttled/throttled or https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/time/rate
+	var lock sync.Mutex
+	currentConcurrent := 0
+	maxConcurrent := 10
+
+	resty.New().WrapExecutor(func(req *resty.Request, next resty.Executor) (*resty.Response, error) {
+		lock.Lock()
+		current := currentConcurrent
+		if current == maxConcurrent {
+			lock.Unlock()
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("max concurrency exceeded")
+		}
+
+		current++
+		lock.Unlock()
+
+		defer func() {
+			lock.Lock()
+			current--
+			lock.Unlock()
+		}()
+
+		return next(req)
+	})
+}
diff --git a/request.go b/request.go
index 672df88c..36ab691b 100644
--- a/request.go
+++ b/request.go
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ func (r *Request) Execute(method, url string) (*Response, error) {
 	if r.SRV != nil {
 		_, addrs, err = net.LookupSRV(r.SRV.Service, "tcp", r.SRV.Domain)
 		if err != nil {
-			r.client.onErrorHooks(r, nil, err)
+			r.client.onErrorHooks(r, resp, err)
 			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
@@ -755,9 +755,9 @@ func (r *Request) Execute(method, url string) (*Response, error) {
 
 	if r.client.RetryCount == 0 {
 		r.Attempt = 1
-		resp, err = r.client.execute(r)
-		r.client.onErrorHooks(r, resp, unwrapNoRetryErr(err))
-		return resp, unwrapNoRetryErr(err)
+		resp, err = r.client.executor(r)
+		r.client.onErrorHooks(r, resp, err)
+		return resp, err
 	}
 
 	err = Backoff(
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ func (r *Request) Execute(method, url string) (*Response, error) {
 
 			r.URL = r.selectAddr(addrs, url, r.Attempt)
 
-			resp, err = r.client.execute(r)
+			resp, err = r.client.executor(r)
 			if err != nil {
 				r.client.log.Errorf("%v, Attempt %v", err, r.Attempt)
 			}
@@ -780,9 +780,9 @@ func (r *Request) Execute(method, url string) (*Response, error) {
 		RetryHooks(r.client.RetryHooks),
 	)
 
-	r.client.onErrorHooks(r, resp, unwrapNoRetryErr(err))
+	r.client.onErrorHooks(r, resp, err)
 
-	return resp, unwrapNoRetryErr(err)
+	return resp, err
 }
 
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diff --git a/retry.go b/retry.go
index 00b8514a..2117a500 100644
--- a/retry.go
+++ b/retry.go
@@ -111,11 +111,10 @@ func Backoff(operation func() (*Response, error), options ...Option) error {
 			return err
 		}
 
-		err1 := unwrapNoRetryErr(err)           // raw error, it used for return users callback.
-		needsRetry := err != nil && err == err1 // retry on a few operation errors by default
+		needsRetry := isTemporaryError(err) // retry on temporary errors by default
 
 		for _, condition := range opts.retryConditions {
-			needsRetry = condition(resp, err1)
+			needsRetry = condition(resp, err)
 			if needsRetry {
 				break
 			}
diff --git a/retry_test.go b/retry_test.go
index 9f8fb387..a2991249 100644
--- a/retry_test.go
+++ b/retry_test.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func TestBackoffSuccess(t *testing.T) {
 	retryErr := Backoff(func() (*Response, error) {
 		externalCounter++
 		if externalCounter < attempts {
-			return nil, errors.New("not yet got the number we're after")
+			return nil, wrapTemporaryError(errors.New("not yet got the number we're after"))
 		}
 
 		return nil, nil
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ func TestBackoffTenAttemptsSuccess(t *testing.T) {
 	retryErr := Backoff(func() (*Response, error) {
 		externalCounter++
 		if externalCounter < attempts {
-			return nil, errors.New("not yet got the number we're after")
+			return nil, wrapTemporaryError(errors.New("not yet got the number we're after"))
 		}
 		return nil, nil
 	}, Retries(attempts), WaitTime(5), MaxWaitTime(500))
diff --git a/util.go b/util.go
index 1d563bef..597b346c 100644
--- a/util.go
+++ b/util.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ package resty
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"log"
@@ -368,24 +369,38 @@ func copyHeaders(hdrs http.Header) http.Header {
 	return nh
 }
 
-type noRetryErr struct {
+type temporaryError struct {
 	err error
 }
 
-func (e *noRetryErr) Error() string {
+func (e *temporaryError) Error() string {
 	return e.err.Error()
 }
 
-func wrapNoRetryErr(err error) error {
-	if err != nil {
-		err = &noRetryErr{err: err}
+func (e *temporaryError) Unwrap() error {
+	return e.err
+}
+
+func (e *temporaryError) Temporary() bool {
+	return true
+}
+
+// wrapTemporaryError wraps an error to advertise it should be retryable, if it doesn't specify it already.
+func wrapTemporaryError(err error) error {
+	if err == nil {
+		return nil
 	}
-	return err
+	var tempError interface{ Temporary() bool }
+	if errors.As(err, &tempError) {
+		return err // Already exposes the method, honour it, even if false
+	}
+	return &temporaryError{err}
 }
 
-func unwrapNoRetryErr(err error) error {
-	if e, ok := err.(*noRetryErr); ok {
-		err = e.err
+func isTemporaryError(err error) bool {
+	var tempError interface{ Temporary() bool }
+	if errors.As(err, &tempError) {
+		return tempError.Temporary()
 	}
-	return err
+	return false
 }
diff --git a/util_test.go b/util_test.go
index ef2bb915..3cdc6e1c 100644
--- a/util_test.go
+++ b/util_test.go
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ package resty
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"errors"
 	"mime/multipart"
+	"net"
 	"testing"
 )
 
@@ -95,3 +97,22 @@ func TestWriteMultipartFormFileReaderError(t *testing.T) {
 	assertNotNil(t, err)
 	assertEqual(t, "read error", err.Error())
 }
+
+func Test_wrapTemporaryError(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string
+		base error
+		temp bool
+	}{
+		{name: "nil", temp: false},
+		{name: "dns temp", base: &net.DNSError{Err: "err", IsTemporary: true}, temp: true},
+		{name: "dns not temp", base: &net.DNSError{Err: "err"}, temp: false},
+		{name: "other", base: errors.New("foo"), temp: true},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			err := wrapTemporaryError(tt.base)
+			assertEqual(t, tt.temp, isTemporaryError(err))
+		})
+	}
+}