---
title: "Withdraw your application"
method: POST
path: "/applications/{id}/retract"
tags: ["Applying for an entry"]
---

# Withdraw your application

`POST /applications/{id}/retract`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://verifiedhandles.org`
- URL: `https://verifiedhandles.org/applications/{id}/retract`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Withdraws it while it is still open. Back to the application, or `?error=cannot_retract` once it is decided.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Other responses

- `303`: Back to the application.
- `400`: Or the request sent a key and a session cookie together (`bearer_with_cookie`): send one.
- `401`: No key was sent (`auth_required`), or the key was refused: unknown, revoked or expired, its holder may no longer use keys, or this instance takes none. Carries `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer`. After 60 refused keys from one IP address in a minute, every key from there is answered `429` (text, with `Retry-After`) until the minute is up.
- `403`: A read-only key tried to change something (`read_only_key`), or the account is blocked (`forbidden`).
- `404`: No such application, or not yours: the not-found page.
- `429`: Too many changes in the last minute: counted per IP address, per account and per key (an admin key’s per key alone, at the limit set on Console → Rate limits). Wait the number of seconds `Retry-After` gives.
- `503`: The site is down for maintenance. The body is the maintenance page, as HTML. Try again later: `Retry-After` gives the seconds.

---

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