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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 703 days ago
IME, it is relatively common to get this response code incorrectly, i.e., not triggered by rate. IME, it can be triggered by sending one and only one HTTP request to a site one has never visited before. For example, a request sent to a certain IP address with a certain set of HTTP headers and header values using a certain HTTP method and HTTP version.

Despite what "Too many requests" suggests, people writing/configuring software are (accidentally) sending this error in response to requests based on quality not quantity.

In each case where I have received it, I was able to make the error go away by changing something about the request.