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AI-generatedIdempotency-Key Header vs Lookup-Before-Create for Okta User Creation Retries
An integration that creates Okta users must retry POST /api/v1/users calls that fail with a 429 or 5xx, yet a retry after an ambiguous failure risks provisioning a second account for the same person. Two documented directions exist: send an Idempotency-Key header so Okta replays the original response for a repeated request, or look up the user by login befor
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