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RichardChukwu authored Feb 24, 2025
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The server SHOULD use HTTP response status codes to indicate
retryable and not-retryable errors for a particular erroneous situation. The
client SHOULD honour HTTP response status codes as retryable or not-retryable.

##### Retryable Response Codes

The requests that receive a response status code listed in following table SHOULD
be retried.
All other `4xx` or `5xx` response status codes MUST NOT be retried.
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recommended time interval in seconds to wait before retrying.

The client SHOULD honour the waiting interval specified in the "Retry-After"
header if it is present. If the client receives an `HTTP 429` or an `HTTP 503`
response and the "Retry-After" header is not present in the response, then the
client SHOULD implement an exponential backoff strategy between retries.
header if it is present. If the client receives a retryable error code (see
[table above](#retryable-response-codes)) and the "Retry-After" header is
not present in the response, then the client SHOULD implement an exponential backoff
strategy between retries.

##### All Other Responses

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