> > >     The error code for search rate limiting will be changing from HTTP
> > > 503 to HTTP 401 in the very near future (today or tomorrow). For
> > > details, continue reading.
> >
> > Are you sure you want to use 401 for this? 401 would indicate authorization
> > required. If you're asking for credentials, that would make sense, but if
> > you're not, I would think the 503 is still the proper response irrespective
> > of broken proxies. I don't see other codes that have that one's temporal
> > semantics.
>
> We use 400 for rate limiting on the REST API.  Matt and I are
> discussing whether or not this might be the correct response.
> Thoughts?

I guess that would work there too IMHO. It's ill-defined but that's a
bonus in this case :)

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