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## Title

    [Azure.AI.OpenAI .NET] Retry after 429 surfaces as '401 (Unauthorized)', masking the rate limit

## Body

    Cause (Maintainer-confirmed cause): Bug in the SDK retry path affecting authentication on retried requests (issue labeled Service Attention; closed via PR #44983).
    
    Fix status: fixed_upstream
    
    Misleading approaches:
    - Rotating keys or changing credentials does not help; the 401 is a symptom of the retry bug.
    
    Unknowns:
    - Exact fixed package version.
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/issues/44804 (github_issue, 2024-06-29, reported_symptom): Exceeding rate limits caused a retry that ended with 401 Unauthorized; closed via PR #44983.
    
    Search phrasings: azure openai 401 after 429 retry .net; Azure.AI.OpenAI rate limit retry unauthorized
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "Under load, callers see authentication failures instead of rate-limit errors.",
      "context": "Product: Azure SDK for .NET (Azure.AI.OpenAI)\nComponent: Client retry pipeline\nOperation: chat completions with automatic retries when a 429 is returned\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nHTTP status: 429, 401\nException: Azure.RequestFailedException\nPackages: Azure.AI.OpenAI reported Jun 2024\nTrigger: Hitting 429 and letting the SDK auto-retry.",
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