What is the most appropriate HTTP status code for flooding?

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Which HTTP status is the most appropriate when user performs actions too fast (floods) or spams it? I believe it's one of 4XX family, but which one?

http://httpstatusdogs.com/429-too-many-requests – online Thomas Dec 14 '15 at 12:16 — online Thomas, Dec 14 '15 at 12:16

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '15 at 12:17

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The answer is 429 Too Many Requests

answered Dec 14 '15 at 12:17

online Thomas

Wow, what is this massive downvote for? Is this 429 status official? I have looked at the list of statuses where 429 was not present. Shall I use it today? – Robo Robok Dec 14 '15 at 12:33
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Then you are looking at the wrong list. The official one is at http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.xhtml and it includes 429. – Julian Reschke Dec 14 '15 at 12:50
I thought this is the official list of safe statuses: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html – Robo Robok Dec 14 '15 at 13:30
No. 1) The list of status codes is extensible, thus there's a registry. And furthermore, RFC 2616 it obsolete, you need to read RFCs 7230..5 instead (in this case http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7231.html#status.codes in particular) – Julian Reschke Dec 14 '15 at 13:39

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