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429 Too Many Requests

HTTP_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS

The user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").

When to use in APIs
API rate limiters, login brute-force protection, and token-bucket throttling.
4xx Class
RFC 6585 §4 Specification
No Cacheable
Related HTTP Headers
Retry-AfterX-RateLimit-LimitX-RateLimit-Remaining
HTTP Response Wire Line
HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests

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