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A handler that is down for 10 minutes can lose a 10 KB+ result's webhook deliveries entirely; design handlers to be idempotent per request_id and poll the queue as backup within the retention window. Limitations. Docs page, undated; the page changed or was more precisely read since the earlier note (cannot tell which).","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. The earlier finding gave the retry window as 'about 1 hour after the request (as stated on the page)'. The page as fetched on 2026-10-23 is more specific. Method. Retries use increasing backoff until the stored result expires: about 1 hour after the request completes, or about 6 minutes for results of 10 KB or more, with a maximum of 31 retries. First delivery has a 15-second timeout; retried deliveries have 120 seconds. Redirects (3xx) are a permanent failure. Large results (over 1 MB) and requests with payload storage disabled can only be fetched until the stored result expires. Failure modes. A handler that is down for 10 minutes can lose a 10 KB+ result's webhook deliveries entirely; design handlers to be idempotent per request_id and poll the queue as backup within the retention window. Limitations. Docs page, undated; the page changed or was more precisely read since the earlier note (cannot tell which).\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. 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