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About
The HTTP Retry-After response header indicates how long the user
agent should wait before making a follow-up request1.
Usage
- In a 503 Service Unavailable response, this indicates how long the service is expected to be unavailable
- In a 429 Too Many Requests response, this indicates how long to wait before making a new request
- In a a redirect response, such as 301 Moved Permanently, this indicates the minimum time that the user agent is asked to wait before the redirected request
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References
MDN. “Retry-After header”. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Retry-After. (Accessed: ). ↩︎