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503 Service Unavailable
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HTTP 503 Service Unavailable is a server error-class status code defined in RFC9110. The server is temporarily unavailable — overloaded or down for maintenance.
Server-error responses admit the fault is on the server's side: the request was valid, but the server failed to fulfil it. On the wire, the response begins with the status line HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable.