429 Too Many Requests

The HTTP 429 Too Many Requests response status code indicates the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting").

A Retry-After header might be included to this response indicating how long to wait before making a new request.

Status

429 Too Many Requests

Example

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Content-Type: text/html
Retry-After: 3600

Specifications

Specification Title
RFC 6585, section 4: 429 Too Many Requests Additional HTTP Status Codes

See also

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  6. HTTP access control (CORS)
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  15. HTTP specifications
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  17. References:
  18. HTTP headers
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  19. HTTP request methods
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  20. HTTP response status codes
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    35. 417 Expectation Failed
    36. 418 I'm a teapot
    37. 422 Unprocessable Entity
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    40. 428 Precondition Required
    41. 429 Too Many Requests
    42. 431 Request Header Fields Too Large
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    11. Reason: Multiple CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' not allowed
    12. Reason: expected ‘true’ in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Credentials’
    13. Reason: invalid token ‘xyz’ in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Headers’
    14. Reason: invalid token ‘xyz’ in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Methods’
    15. Reason: missing token ‘xyz’ in CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Headers’ from CORS preflight channel
  23. Feature-Policy directives
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