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I think 429 is the preferred status code for this. Of course you can use whatever you want, but 503 can presumably come up in other scenarios and it's nice to h
by bmm6o 5y ago
I think 429 is the preferred status code for this. Of course you can use whatever you want, but 503 can presumably come up in other scenarios and it's nice to have something unambiguous.
- cjg 5y ago429 is only applicable if it's the same user sending all the traffic. 503 explicitly mentions server overload.