HTTP - Status Codes

Quiz

The Status-Code element in a server response, is a 3-digit integer where the first digit of the Status-Code defines the class of response and the last two digits do not have any categorization role. There are 5 values for the first digit:

Status Code	Description
1xx: Informational	It means the request has been received and the process is continuing.
2xx: Success	It means the action was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
3xx: Redirection	It means further action must be taken in order to complete the request.
4xx: Client Error	It means the request contains incorrect syntax or cannot be fulfilled.
5xx: Server Error	It means the server failed to fulfill an apparently valid request.

HTTP status codes are extensible and HTTP applications are not required to understand the meaning of all the registered status codes. Given below is a list of all the status codes.

1xx: Information

Message	Description
100 Continue	Only a part of the request has been received by the server, but as long as it has not been rejected, the client should continue with the request.
101 Switching Protocols	The server switches protocol.

2xx: Successful

Message	Description
200 OK	The request is OK.
201 Created	The request is complete, and a new resource is created.
202 Accepted	The request is accepted for processing, but the processing is not complete.
203 Non-authoritative Information	The information in the entity header is from a local or third-party copy, not from the original server.
204 No Content	A status code and a header are given in the response, but there is no entity-body in the reply.
205 Reset Content	The browser should clear the form used for this transaction for additional input.
206 Partial Content	The server is returning partial data of the size requested. Used in response to a request specifying a Range header. The server must specify the range included in the response with the Content-Range header.

Example

GET /index.htm HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 
Host: www.tutorialspoint.com
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive

The server response against the above GET request will be as follows:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2024 18:59:38 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.59 (Ubuntu)
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Origin
Content-Length: 20241
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

3xx: Redirection

Message	Description
300 Multiple Choices	A link list. The user can select a link and go to that location. Maximum five addresses.
301 Moved Permanently	The requested page has moved to a new url.
302 Found	The requested page has moved temporarily to a new url.
303 See Other	The requested page can be found under a different url.
304 Not Modified	This is the response code to an If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match header, where the URL has not been modified since the specified date.
305 Use Proxy	The requested URL must be accessed through the proxy mentioned in the Location header.
306 Unused	This code was used in a previous version. It is no longer used, but the code is reserved.
307 Temporary Redirect	The requested page has moved temporarily to a new url.

Example

GET httpbin.org/redirect/1 HTTP/1.1

The server response against the above GET request will be as follows:

HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:55:56 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 215
Server: gunicorn/19.9.0

4xx: Client Error

Message	Description
400Bad Request	The server did not understand the request.
401 Unauthorized	The requested page needs a username and a password.
402 Payment Required	You can not use this code yet.
403 Forbidden	Access is forbidden to the requested page.
404 Not Found	The server can not find the requested page.
405 Method Not Allowed	The method specified in the request is not allowed.
406 Not Acceptable	The server can only generate a response that is not accepted by the client.
407 Proxy Authentication Required	You must authenticate with a proxy server before this request can be served.
408 Request Timeout	The request took longer than the server was prepared to wait.
409 Conflict	The request could not be completed because of a conflict.
410 Gone	The requested page is no longer available.
411 Length Required	The "Content-Length" is not defined. The server will not accept the request without it.
412 Precondition Failed	The pre condition given in the request evaluated to false by the server.
413 Request Entity Too Large	The server will not accept the request, because the request entity is too large.
414 Request-url Too Long	The server will not accept the request, because the url is too long. Occurs when you convert a "post" request to a "get" request with a long query information.
415 Unsupported Media Type	The server will not accept the request, because the mediatype is not supported.
416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable	The requested byte range is not available and is out of bounds.
417 Expectation Failed	The expectation given in an Expect request-header field could not be met by this server.

Example

GET httpbin.org/post HTTP/1.1

The server response against the above GET request will be as follows:

HTTP/1.1 405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:58:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
Allow: POST, OPTIONS

5xx: Server Error

Message	Description
500Internal Server Error	The request was not completed. The server met an unexpected condition.
501 Not Implemented	The request was not completed. The server did not support the functionality required.
502 Bad Gateway	The request was not completed. The server received an invalid response from the upstream server.
503 Service Unavailable	The request was not completed. The server is temporarily overloading or down.
504 Gateway Timeout	The gateway has timed out.
505 HTTP Version Not Supported	The server does not support the "http protocol" version.

Example

GET httpbin.org/status/500 HTTP/1.1

The server response against the above GET request will be as follows:

HTTP/1.1 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:05:12 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 0
Server: gunicorn/19.9.0

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