diff --git a/auto-configurations/common/spring-ai-autoconfigure-retry/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/retry/autoconfigure/SpringAiRetryAutoConfiguration.java b/auto-configurations/common/spring-ai-autoconfigure-retry/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/retry/autoconfigure/SpringAiRetryAutoConfiguration.java
index 1d7eed38da9..81f848917f1 100644
--- a/auto-configurations/common/spring-ai-autoconfigure-retry/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/retry/autoconfigure/SpringAiRetryAutoConfiguration.java
+++ b/auto-configurations/common/spring-ai-autoconfigure-retry/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/retry/autoconfigure/SpringAiRetryAutoConfiguration.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.springframework.ai.retry.autoconfigure;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnMissingBean;
 import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
 import org.springframework.http.client.ClientHttpResponse;
 import org.springframework.lang.NonNull;
 import org.springframework.retry.RetryCallback;
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@
  *
  * @author Christian Tzolov
  * @author SriVarshan P
+ * @author Issam El-atif
  */
 @AutoConfiguration
 @ConditionalOnClass(RetryUtils.class)
@@ -87,13 +90,19 @@ public boolean hasError(@NonNull ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException
 			}
 
 			@Override
+			public void handleError(URI url, HttpMethod method, @NonNull ClientHttpResponse response)
+					throws IOException {
+				handleError(response);
+			}
+
+			@SuppressWarnings("removal")
 			public void handleError(@NonNull ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {
 				if (!response.getStatusCode().isError()) {
 					return;
 				}
 
 				String error = StreamUtils.copyToString(response.getBody(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-				if (error == null || error.isEmpty()) {
+				if (error.isEmpty()) {
 					error = "No response body available";
 				}