diff --git a/.changeset/olive-vans-throw.md b/.changeset/olive-vans-throw.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43db926
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/olive-vans-throw.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"posthog-php": patch
+---
+
+Fix socket retries failing after reconnecting or crashing when reconnection fails.
diff --git a/lib/Consumer/Socket.php b/lib/Consumer/Socket.php
index 52cecb7..71d1c97 100644
--- a/lib/Consumer/Socket.php
+++ b/lib/Consumer/Socket.php
@@ -113,14 +113,15 @@ private function createSocket()
      */
     private function makeRequest($socket, $req, $retry = true)
     {
-        $bytes_written = 0;
         $bytes_total = strlen($req);
-        $closed = false;
 
         // Retries with exponential backoff until success
         $backoff = 100;   // Set initial waiting time to 100ms
 
         while (true) {
+            $bytes_written = 0;
+            $closed = false;
+
             // Send request to server
             while (!$closed && $bytes_written < $bytes_total) {
                 try {
@@ -173,6 +174,9 @@ private function makeRequest($socket, $req, $retry = true)
             // Retry uploading...
             $backoff *= 2;
             $socket = $this->createSocket();
+            if (!$socket) {
+                return false;
+            }
         }
 
         return false;
diff --git a/test/ConsumerSocketTest.php b/test/ConsumerSocketTest.php
index 38479ce..141ad7c 100644
--- a/test/ConsumerSocketTest.php
+++ b/test/ConsumerSocketTest.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace PostHog\Test;
 
+use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\DataProvider;
 use RuntimeException;
 
 class ConsumerSocketTest extends ConsumerTransportTestCase
@@ -60,6 +61,64 @@ public function testHttpFailureDropsBatchAndLogsWhenDebugging(): void
         self::assertSame(['[PostHog][Socket] invalid payload'], $errorMessages);
     }
 
+    public static function retryCases(): array
+    {
+        return [
+            'server error' => [503, false],
+            'rate limited gzip' => [429, true],
+        ];
+    }
+
+    #[DataProvider('retryCases')]
+    public function testRetryResendsCompleteRequest(int $status, bool $compressed): void
+    {
+        $this->server->stop();
+        $this->server = new LocalHttpServer([['status' => $status], ['status' => 200]]);
+        $client = $this->client([
+            'maximum_backoff_duration' => 200,
+            'compress_request' => $compressed,
+        ]);
+        self::assertTrue($client->capture([
+            'distinctId' => 'some-user',
+            'event' => 'retried event',
+            'properties' => ['text' => str_repeat('retry payload ', 100)],
+        ]));
+
+        $previousTimeout = ini_set('default_socket_timeout', '1');
+        try {
+            self::assertTrue($client->flush());
+        } finally {
+            ini_set('default_socket_timeout', $previousTimeout);
+        }
+
+        $requests = $this->server->requests();
+        self::assertCount(2, $requests);
+        self::assertSame($requests[0], $requests[1]);
+        $payload = json_decode($requests[1]['body'], true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
+        self::assertSame('retried event', $payload['batch'][0]['event']);
+        self::assertSame(
+            $compressed ? 'gzip' : null,
+            $requests[1]['headers']['content-encoding'] ?? null
+        );
+        self::assertTrue($client->flush());
+        self::assertCount(2, $this->server->requests());
+    }
+
+    public function testFailedReconnectReturnsFalseWithoutInvalidStreamAccess(): void
+    {
+        $this->server->stop();
+        $this->server = new LocalHttpServer([['status' => 503, 'close_server' => true]]);
+        $client = $this->client([
+            'maximum_backoff_duration' => 200,
+            'timeout' => 0.05,
+            'debug' => false,
+        ]);
+        self::assertTrue($client->capture(['distinctId' => 'some-user', 'event' => 'failed retry']));
+        self::assertFalse($client->flush());
+        self::assertCount(1, $this->server->requests());
+        self::assertTrue($client->flush());
+    }
+
     public function testConnectionError(): void
     {
         $this->server->stop();
diff --git a/test/fixtures/http-server.php b/test/fixtures/http-server.php
index 2575c00..5774ad9 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/http-server.php
+++ b/test/fixtures/http-server.php
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
     ], JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR) . "\n", FILE_APPEND);
 
     $response = array_shift($responses) ?? [];
+    $closeServer = $response['close_server'] ?? false;
+    if ($closeServer) {
+        fclose($server);
+    }
     $status = $response['status'] ?? 200;
     $body = $response['body'] ?? '{"status":1}';
     $headers = '';
@@ -54,4 +58,7 @@
         $wire = substr($wire, $written);
     }
     fclose($connection);
+    if ($closeServer) {
+        break;
+    }
 }