Overview [1]#
The HTTP protocol provides a rich set of status Result Codes to represent different request processing outcomes and are in the IANA Registry Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Status Code Registry
HTTP Status Code are defined by section 10 of RFC 2616 (Unless noted below).
- 1xx: Informational - Request received, continuing process
- 2xx: Success - The action was successfully received, understood, and accepted
- 3xx: Redirection - Further action must be taken in order to complete the request
- 4xx: Client Error - The request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled
- 5xx: Server Error - The server failed to fulfill an apparently valid request
| code | Type | Status text | Description | HTTP version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Informational | Continue | This interim response indicates that everything so far is OK and that the client should continue with the request or ignore it if it is already finished. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 101 | Informational | Switching Protocol | This code is sent in response to an Upgrade: request header by the client, and indicates that the protocol the server is switching too. It was introduced to allow migration to an incompatible protocol version, and is not in common use. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 102 | Informational | Processing | interim response used to inform the client that the server has accepted the complete request, but has not yet completed it. | RFC 2518 |
| 200 | Successful | OK | The HTTP Request has succeeded. The meaning of a success varies depending on the HTTP method: GET: The resource has been fetched and is transmitted in the message body. HEAD: The entity headers are in the message body. POST: The resource describing the result of the action is transmitted in the message body. TRACE: The message body contains the request message as received by the server | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 201 | Successful | Created | The HTTP Request has succeeded and a new resource has been created as a result of it. This is typically the response sent after a PUT request. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 202 | Successful | Accepted | The HTTP Request has been received but not yet acted upon. It is non-committal, meaning that there is no way in HTTP to later send an Asynchronous Operation response indicating the outcome of processing the request. It is intended for cases where another process or server handles the request, or for batch processing. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 203 | Successful | Non-Authoritative Information | This response code means returned meta-information set is not exact set as available from the origin server, but collected from a local or a Third-party copy. Except this condition, 200 OK response should be preferred instead of this response. | HTTP/0.9 and 1.1 |
| 204 | Successful | No Content | There is no content to send for this request, but the headers may be useful. The User-agent may update its cached headers for this resource with the new ones. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 205 | Successful | Reset Content | This HTTP Status Code is sent after accomplishing request to tell user agent reset document view which sent this request. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 206 | Successful | Partial Content | This HTTP Status Code is used because of range header sent by the client to separate download into multiple streams. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 207 | Successful | Multi-Status | This response code is is used as the overall response status code, the recipient needs to consult the contents of the multistatus response body for further information about the success or failure of the method execution. | RFC 4918 |
| 208 | Successful | Already Reported | HTTP Status Code can be used inside a DAV: propstat response element to avoid enumerating the internal members of multiple bindings to the same collection repeatedly. Can only occur for "Depth: infinity" requests when the where multiple collection bindings cause a bind loop | RFC 5842 |
| 209-225 | Unassigned | This HTTP Status Code is no longer used, it is just reserved currently. | ||
| 226 | Successful | IM Used | The server has fulfilled a HTTP GET request for the resource, and the response is a representation of the result of one or more instance-manipulations applied to the current instance | RFC 3229 |
| 227-299 | Unassigned | This HTTP Status Code is no longer used, it is just reserved currently. | ||
| 300 | Redirection | Multiple Choice | The request has more than one possible responses. User-agent or user should choose one of them. There is no standardized way to choose one of the responses. | HTTP/1.0 and later |
| 301 | Redirection | Moved Permanently | This HTTP Status Code means that URI of requested resource has been changed. Probably, new URI would be given in the response. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 302 | Redirection | Found | This response code means that URI of requested resource has been changed temporarily. New changes in the URI might be made in the future. Therefore, this same URI should be used by the client in future requests. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 303 | Redirection | See Other | Server sent this response to directing client to get requested resource to another URI with an HTTP GET request. | HTTP/0.9 and 1.1 |
| 304 | Redirection | Not Modified | This is used for caching purposes. It is telling to client that response has not been modified. So, client can continue to use same cached version of response. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 305 | Redirection | Use Proxy | This means requested response must be accessed by a proxy. This response code is not largely supported because security reasons. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 306 | Redirection | unused | This response code is no longer used, it is just reserved currently. It was used in a previous version of the HTTP 1.1 specification. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 307 | Redirection | Temporary Redirect | Server sent this response to directing client to get requested resource to another URI with same method that used prior request. This has the same semantic than the 302 Found HTTP response code, with the exception that the user agent must not change the HTTP method used: if a HTTP POST was used in the first request, a HTTP POST MUST be used in the second request. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 308 | Redirection | Permanent Redirect | This means that the resource is now permanently located at another URI, specified by the Location: HTTP Response header. This has the same semantics as the 301 Moved Permanently HTTP response code, with the exception that the user agent must not change the HTTP method used: if a HTTP POST was used in the first request, a HTTP POST MUST be used in the second request. | RFC 7538 |
| 400 | Error | Bad Request | This HTTP Status Code means that server could not understand the request due to invalid syntax. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 401 | Error | Unauthorized | Authentication is needed to get requested response. This is similar to HTTP 403, but in this case, authentication is possible. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 402 | Error | Payment Required | This HTTP Status Code is reserved for future use. Initial aim for creating this code was using it for digital payment systems however this is not used currently. | HTTP/0.9 and 1.1 |
| 403 | Error | Forbidden | Client does not have access rights to the content so server is rejecting to give proper response. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 404 | Error | Not Found | Server can not find requested resource. This HTTP Status Code probably is most famous one due to its frequency to occur in web. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 405 | Error | Method Not Allowed | The request method is known by the server but has been disabled and cannot be used. The two mandatory methods, GET and HEAD, must never be disabled and should not return this error code. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 406 | Error | Not Acceptable | This response is sent when the web server, after performing server-driven content negotiation, doesn't find any content following the criteria given by the user agent. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 407 | Error | Proxy Authentication Required | This is similar to HTTP 401 but authentication is needed to be done by a Proxy Server. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 408 | Error | Request Timeout | This response is sent on an idle connection by some servers, even without any previous request by the client. It means that the server would like to shut down this unused connection. This response is used much more since some browsers, like Chrome or IE9, use HTTP preconnection mechanisms to speed up surfing (see bug 881804, which tracks the future implementation of such a mechanism in Firefox). Also note that some servers merely shut down the connection without sending this message. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 409 | Error | Conflict | This response would be sent when a request conflict with current state of server. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 410 | Error | Gone | This response would be sent when requested content has been deleted from server. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 411 | Error | Length Required | Server rejected the request because the Content-Length header field is not defined and the server requires it. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 412 | Error | Precondition Failed | The client has indicated preconditions in its headers which the server does not meet. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 413 | Error | Payload Too Large | Request entity is larger than limits defined by server; the server might close the connection or return an Retry-After header field. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 414 | Error | URI Too Long | The URI requested by the client is longer than the server is willing to interpret. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 415 | Error | Unsupported Media Type | The media format of the requested data is not supported by the server, so the server is rejecting the request. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 416 | Error | Requested Range Not Satisfiable | The range specified by the Range header field in the request can't be fulfilled; it's possible that the range is outside the size of the target URI's data. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 417 | Error | Expectation Failed | This response code means the expectation indicated by the Expect request header field can't be met by the server. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 418 | Error | I'm a teapot | Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout. | HTCPCP/1.0 |
| 418-420 | Unassigned | |||
| 421 | Error | Misdirected Request | The request was directed at a server that is not able to produce a response. This can be sent by a server that is not configured to produce responses for the combination of scheme and authority that are included in the request URI. | HTTP/2.0 |
| 422 | Error | Unprocessable Entity | The server understands the content type of the request entity and the syntax of the request entity is correct but was unable to process the contained instructions. | RFC 4918 |
| 423 | Error | Locked | Means the source or destination resource of a method is locked. This response SHOULD contain an appropriate precondition or postcondition code, such as 'lock-token-submitted' or 'no-conflicting-lock' | RFC 4918 |
| 424 | Error | Failed Dependency | The method could not be performed on the resource because the requested action depended on another action and that action failed | RFC 4918 |
| 426 | Error | Upgrade Required | The server refuses to perform the request using the current protocol but might be willing to do so after the client upgrades to a different protocol. The server MUST send an Upgrade header field in a 426 response to indicate the required protocol(s) (Section 6.7 of RFC 7230). | HTTP/1.1 and newer |
| 428 | Error | Precondition Required | The origin server requires the request to be conditional. Intended to prevent "the 'lost update' problem, where a client GETs a resource's state, modifies it, and PUTs it back to the server, when meanwhile a third party has modified the state on the server, leading to a conflict." | HTTP/1.1 and newer |
| 429 | Error | Too Many Requests | The user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting"). | HTTP/1.1 and newer |
| 431 | Error | Request Header Fields Too Large | The server is unwilling to process the request because its header fields are too large. The request MAY be resubmitted after reducing the size of the request header fields. | HTTP/1.1 and newer |
| 432-450 | Unassigned | |||
| 451 | Error | Unavailable For Legal Reasons | This status code indicates that the server is denying access to the resource as a consequence of a legal demand | RFC-ietf-httpbis-legally-restricted-status-04 |
| 452-499 | Unassigned | |||
| 500 | Server Error | Internal Server Error | The server has encountered a situation it doesn't know how to handle. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 501 | Server Error | Not Implemented | The request method is not supported by the server and cannot be handled. The only methods that servers are required to support (and therefore that must not return this code) are GET and HEAD. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 502 | Server Error | Bad Gateway | This error response means that the server, while working as a gateway to get a response needed to handle the request, got an invalid response. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 503 | Server Error | Service Unavailable | The server is not ready to handle the request. Common causes are a server that is down for maintenance or that is overloaded. Note that together with this response, a user-friendly page explaining the problem should be sent. This responses should be used for temporary conditions and the Retry-After: HTTP header should, if possible, contain the estimated time before the recovery of the service. The webmaster must also take care about the caching-related headers that are sent along with this response, as these temporary condition responses should usually not be cached. | HTTP/0.9 and later |
| 504 | Server Error | Gateway Timeout | This error response is given when the server is acting as a gateway and cannot get a response in time. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 505 | Server Error | HTTP Version Not Supported | The HTTP version used in the request is not supported by the server. | HTTP/1.1 only |
| 506 | Server Error | Variant Also Negotiates | The server has an internal configuration error: transparent content negotiation for the request results in a circular reference. | HTTP/1.1 |
| 507 | Server Error | Insufficient Storage | the method could not be performed on the resource because the server is unable to store the representation needed to successfully complete the request. This condition is considered to be temporary | RFC 4918 |
| 508 | Server Error | Loop Detected | The server terminated an operation because it encountered an infinite loop while processing a request with "Depth: infinity". This status indicates that the entire operation failed. | RFC 5842 |
| 509 | Unassigned | |||
| 510 | Server Error | Not Extended | The policy for accessing the resource has not been met in the request. | RFC 2774 |
| 511 | Server Error | Network Authentication Required | The 511 status code indicates that the client needs to authenticate to gain network access. | HTTP/1.1 |
| 512-599 | Unassigned |
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- API versioning
- Basic Authentication Scheme
- Forbidden
- Found
- HTTP
- HTTP 100
- HTTP 101
- HTTP 200
- HTTP 201
- HTTP 204
- HTTP 301
- HTTP 302
- HTTP 308
- HTTP 401
- HTTP 403
- HTTP 404
- HTTP 407
- HTTP 410
- HTTP 418
- HTTP Body
- HTTP Header Field
- HTTP Warn Codes
- Informational
- Moved Permanently
- Mutual TLS Sender Constrained Resources Access
- OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice
- OAuth 2.0 Token Revocation
- Openid-configuration
- Permanent Redirect
- SCIM Bulk Request
- SCIM Create Request
- SCIM Delete Request
- SCIM Replace Request
- SCIM Retrieving a Known Resource
- SCIM Service Provider Configuration Endpoints
- SCIM Update Request
- Server_error
- Service Unavailable
- URL redirection
