HttpLimitReqModule should return 429 not 503

Valentin V. Bartenev vbart at nginx.com
Mon Mar 3 20:54:59 UTC 2014


On Monday 03 March 2014 15:52:56 justink101 wrote:
> Can we get a flag in HttpLimitReqModule to return a http status code 429 Too
> Many Requests instead of 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable since this is a
> more accurate status code? I know that 429 is not officially defined, but it
> is a defacto-standard.
> 
> Perhaps something like:
> 
>      limit_req_exceeded 429;
> 

http://nginx.org/r/limit_req_status

  wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev



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