{
  "id": 1536950,
  "title": "Preventing Duplicate Password-Reset Notifications (Under SMS Timeout and Retry Pressure)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/preventing-duplicate-password-reset-notifications-under-sms-timeout",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-17T18:42:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/liamfoster1844/preventing-duplicate-password-reset-notifications-under-sms-timeout-and-retry-pressure-50d6"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Treat an SMS timeout as an unknown outcome, not a failed send: accept each password-reset event once, persist its expiry and idempotency key before dispatch, and retry only through a worker that can reconcile the original attempt. For a short-lived e-commerce reset token, compliance evidence is the deciding constraint. The system must be able to show what it accepted, what it attempted, when it…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}