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Retry-After is a lesser known HTTP response header. Let me quote relevant part of RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1 spec): 14.37 Retry-After The Retry-After response-header field can be used with a 503 (Service Unavailable) response to indicate how long the service is expected to be unavailable to the requesting client. This field MAY also be used […]