How to throttle clients in a REST API

Posted by Jacques René Mesrine on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Jacques René Mesrine
Published on 2010-03-30T06:32:59Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 6:53 UTC
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I want to limit clients to an upper limit of number of calls to my REST APIs. What should I return to inform clients that they've been throttled ?

Amazon S3 is returning HTTP 503 with an error code SlowDown to inform clients.

What do you advise ?

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