- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:45:16 -0600
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > > a) Clarify that 503 can be used for rate limiting, or > +1 I just came across this issue, too, but didn't bookmark -- Twitter's Fail Whale is a 503; now cute rate-limit responses are proliferating, but not everybody agrees on what status code to use, which surprises me. I always assumed rate-limiting was kinda the whole point of 503. -Eric
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