api availability_error ai_generated true

503: Service Unavailable with Retry-After header

ID: api/retry-after-header

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82%Fix Rate
86%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
any active — — —

Root Cause

Server temporarily unavailable, retry after specified time.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 92% success Respect Retry-After header value for wait time
  2. 88% success Implement exponential backoff if no Retry-After header

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Retry immediately ignoring Retry-After 82% fail

    May get rate limited or banned

  2. Give up after first 503 72% fail

    Misses transient availability issues