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Every HTTP response has a status code.
browser, optimistically: GET /cat.png (request)
server, sadly: 404 not found (404 is the status code!)
There are 50ish status codes but these are the most common ones in real life:
2xxs mean ★Success★
- 200 OK
3xx s aren’t errors, just redirects to somewhere else
- 301 Moved Permanently
- 302 Found: temporary redirect
- 304 Not Modified: the client already has the latest version, “redirect” to that
4xx errors are generally the client’s fault: it made some kind of invalid request
- 400 Bad Request
- 403 Forbidden: API key/OAuth/something needed
- 404 Not Found: we all know this one :)
- 429 Too Many Requests: you’re being rate limited
5xx errors generally mean something’s wrong with the server.
- 500 Internal Server Error: the server code has an error
- 503 Service Unavailable: could mean nginx (or whatever proxy) couldn’t connect to the server
- 504 Gateway Timeout: the server was too slow to respond