API Rate Limits and HTTP Code from Karl Dubost on 2010-10-28 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from October to December 2010)

From: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:50:43 -0400
To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <827182B5-E3B3-4762-AF6A-D34B8EB4B72E@la-grange.net>

Hi,

I have seen a few times blog post (example [1]) over API Rate Limits and HTTP response code. People designing APIs have difficulties it seems to find the appropriate HTTP response code. That led me a few weeks ago to look at what was done at a few services (not a complete survey, just curiosity)

There is no common practice around that. Should the HTTP specification have a specific code for this, or is there already everything appropriate?


[1]: http://mehack.com/inventing-a-http-response-code-aka-seriously
[2]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2010Oct/0000
[3]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-12#section-8.4

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Karl Dubost
Montréal, QC, Canada
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

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