HTTP Error Codes

Web Site or HTTP Error Codes

If you are using a browser, you more than likely will only ever see 400 or 500 error codes

100 codes are informational

• 100 - Only part of the request was received by the server
• 101 - Protocol switch will take place



200 codes means a command was successful

• 200 - The Request is complete
• 201 - The request is complete and the resouce created
• 202 - The request was accepted, but processing is not complete
• 203 - Non-authoritative information
• 204 - No content found
• 205 - Content reset
• 206 - Partial content found



300 codes You are being Redirected

• 300 - There are multiple choices to link to
• 301 - The page requested has been moved to a new URL
• 302 - The page requested has been temporarily moved to a new URL
• 303 - The requested page can be found at a different URL
• 304 - Not Modified
• 305 - Use Proxy
• 307 - The page requested has been temporarily moved to a new URL



400 codes The operator produced an error

• 400 - Bad request, the request was not understood by the server
• 401 - Unauthorized, the page requested requires a user name / password
• 402 - Payment Required
• 403 - Forbidden, you are not allowed to access the requested page
  (.htaccess file may be denying IP access or password protected page)
• 404 - the requested page not found
  (often caused by a mistype or links on the page not following the correct path)
• 405 - Method not allowed
• 406 - The response generated by the server can not be accepted by the client
• 407 - Authenticate with a proxy server is required
• 408 - Request timed out -the request took longer than the server would wait
• 409 - The request could not be completed because there wasa conflict
• 410 - the requested page in no longer available
• 411 - the server can not process the request without a content-length defined
• 412 - the precondition in the request, the server found to be false
• 413 - The request was too large entity was too large for the server to accept
• 414 - The URL requested was too long
• 415 - The requested media is unsupported



500 codes The server produced an error

• 500 - Internal server Error- The server met an unexpected condition. It could not complete the request. This usually happens if the code can not be read or there was a temporary glitch.
• 501 - The server does nt support the required function
• 502 - Bad Gateway- the server recieved an invalid response
• 503 - Service unavailble- the server is down or overloaded
• 504 - the Gateway Timed out
• 505 - the http protocol is not supported by the server