alt Hacker NewsGenuinely curious: do programs read bodies of 429 responses? In the code bases that I have seen, 429 is not read beyond the code itself
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dfxm12 • today at 5:00 AM
If I find something useful there, I'll read it and code for it...
gleenn • yesterday at 11:13 PM
Almost certainly not by default, certainly not in any of the http libs I have used
Sometimes! The server can also send a retry-after header to indicate when the client is allowed to request the resource again: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...