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Set X-Slack-No-Retry header during Slack timeout

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by tracing how the Ruby webclient builds and sends Slack Web API requests, then inspect where its configuration and timeout handling are defined. Confirm whether the X-Slack-No-Retry: 1 header can be configured and verify that the resulting request prevents retries after an HTTP timeout.

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Description

new feature

When using the webclient through AWS API gateway, there are often delays which cause slack to return "X-Slack-Retry-Reason"=>"http_timeout" even though the POST has been made successfully (the bot writes to slack).

Is there a way to set the X-Slack-No-Retry: 1 on the webclient config in order to prevent the bot attempting the same call multiple times even though successful?

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