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tipako
7 months agoExplorer | Level 4
ServiceUnavailable 503 when doing a lot of requests - expected rate limit error
When there are a lot of requests to the API, at some point a 503 - ServiceUnavailable error code is returned. The documentation does not cover this case (https://developers.dropbox.com/error-handling...
tipako
Explorer | Level 4
Thanks for the confirmation. I think it would be great if this information could be added to the API's "error handling guide", which already covers other HTTP result codes, but not this one. Judging by the amount of posts here in the forums, the 503 code is confusing many developers
Greg-DB
7 months agoDropbox Staff
Thanks for the feedback!
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