Rate limit
The cap a server places on how many requests a client may make in a time window.
Official source: RateLimit header fields for HTTP (IETF HTTPAPI Working Group Internet-Draft) →
A quota policy is set by the server for a quota partition, counted in quota units over a defined window, capped at the quota. No standard way existed for a server to advertise this; proposed `RateLimit-Policy` and `RateLimit` headers let clients slow down before being throttled. Still an active Internet-Draft.
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