Talk:List of HTTP status codes

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1 Decimal codes?
2 span id="codeNNN"?
3 Official?
4 6xx status codes
5 code 440
6 Microsoft Codes and Sub-Codes link
7 Re-added external link
8 Differences between 302, 303, & 307?
9 CaPs
10 0xx???

[edit] Decimal codes?

Is there an http error code with a decimal code? I thought i once saw a slashdoted webpage display something like:

                                 5xx.x - too many clients connected to server try again later
                                 Microsoft internet services ver x ( or whatever ms calls their  
                                 webserver

this was a while ago so i'm not sure if i remeber this right, but i was just wondering. Bawolff 05:13, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

RFC 1945 defines the response line as follows.

Status-Line = HTTP-Version SP Status-Code SP Reason-Phrase CRLF

The Status-Code element is a 3-digit integer result code of the attempt to understand and satisfy the request. The Reason-Phrase is intended to give a short textual description of the Status-Code. The Status-Code is intended for use by automata and the Reason-Phrase is intended for the human user. The client is not required to examine or display the Reason-Phrase.

So no, there's no decimal code. The status code is used by the client to take an action, e.g. prompt for a password, re-fetch from a different location, etc. If a server output a dodgy code it would confuse the client, though it's worth remembering that what you see in the client is usually a HTML page generated by the server and is part of the body of the response – which doesn't necessarily contain the same status information as it gives to the client in the header.

— Lee J Haywood 19:59, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

okay. I was just wondering because I thought I saw on once. Bawolff 23:49, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

IIS has different ways of handling the same error depending on how it was caused. It returns the correct status code to the user, however, its default error pages also have sub-codes for explaining the particular circumstances behind an error. While there are numerous 401.x or 403.x pages, officially they are all classed as their respective main class. Chris 00:36, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] span id="codeNNN"?

I'm not sure what this edit is for. I can see how it might have very limited, personal use in some cases, but it's probably not generally useful enough to keep, since it somewhat gets in the way of other editors improving the article. Anybody else concur? --Interiot 18:52, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I removed them. The only possible use I can see for them is for a personal stylesheet (either monobook.css, or within one browser's settings). If that's the only use, the benefit is marginal at best, and the span tags serve to clutter up the wikitext. If there were other reasons for the span tags, feel free to explain and reinstate them. --Interiot 15:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

They can actually be used as HTML anchors. Although reinstating them now would be useful since we've created all the redirect pages. —Dispenser 03:11, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Official?

Which is REALLY the official source of HTTP response codes? w3c? (as linked to in the article) Or is it the RFC? (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt)

Well, the W3C link explicitely says "rfc2616" in it. And the lead for this article notes the official (excluding non-standardized ones) are from the RFC. So the RFC it is, right? --Interiot 20:17, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

RFC's are official I belive, as the w3c only standardizes (X)HTML, CSS and stuff like that. the actual protocol is all done in RFC's I think. Bawolff 22:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 6xx status codes

I removed the 6xx status code section as this is not part of RFC 2616. I think if people think that they should be listed here it should be under a seperate section than the standard status codes. Also, it wasn't referenced. 144.138.240.88 10:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] code 440

I'm removing this code, as the only reference I could find ( RFC 977 ) says its for nntp. Bawolff 22:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Microsoft Codes and Sub-Codes link

I've re-added the link to the Microsoft IIS HTTP status codes and sub-codes: Microsoft Internet Information Server Status Codes and Sub-Codes. This is related content, and a useful reference to many people coming here to lookup which code to override on their IIS server (was it 403.6 or 403.9?). —Brianary 17:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re-added external link

I've readded the link to All 57 Status Codes recognized by Apache servers this is a ground-breaking article and couldn't be more relevant. Produke 13:01, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Differences between 302, 303, & 307?

The article states that HTTP/1.0 browsers (wrongly) implemented a '302 Found' as a '303 See Other', but also that 303 was added in HTTP/1.1 to clarify the various sorts of redirect. Maybe I'm missing something. Whatever it means, would someone mind clearing this up?

'303 See Other' is obviously different from the other two in that for future requests the client should use the new URI, but am I correct in thinking that the only difference between 302 and 307 is the HTTP version (i.e. that 307 only exists in HTTP/1.1)? I'm probably missing something though.

—Sam Wilson (Australia) 03:00, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CaPs

In several places the article used capital letters to emphasize. I've replaced this with italics per the manual of style. It looked like the text was copied from the RFC references. -- Thinboy00 ^talk/_contribs @916, i.e. 20:58, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

The caps come from RFC 2119, which defines what "must", "must not", "should", "should not", and "may" mean. --Carnildo (talk) 09:02, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Correct. However, they only did that because they distribute all their RFC's as plain text, which would not allow for italics or bold to be used. Properly formatted text doesn't contain "all caps" except for abbreviations, and some non-English styleguides even recommend against their usage in that instance. Shinobu (talk) 10:11, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 0xx???

I reverted http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_HTTP_status_codes&diff=197061179&oldid=197058732 as it seems to be just taking the 1xx info, reversing it a bit, and adding some nonsense example codes. Sgeo^TC 20:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)