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* - c x y k - Jul 31, 2017
(Jul 29, 2017 09:56 PM)QoL Wrote: That would happen if the request made it to the API/Website and they returned it. The 503 is presented by the site protection rules and immediately rejects anything if you spam requests. If they wanted to do things "right" and by the book, we would return 429, but it's not required.
That makes sense.