I don't think we need to backoff after a 401 - we have a perfectly valid
response telling us exactly what we should do so we can do that right away and
move on.
Assuming you run functional tests at least once a day, according to
http://xkcd.com/1205/ and my benchmarks you can spend roughly a full day
reviewing this change and still come out ahead.
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