Advanced Python Programming

HTTP status code

It is not always the case that, when a web request is made and sent to a web server, the server will process the request and return the requested data without fail. Sometimes, the server might be completely down or already busy interacting with other clients and therefore unresponsive to a new request; sometimes, the client itself makes bad requests to a server (for example, incorrectly formatted or malicious requests).

As a way to categorize these problems as well as provide the most information as possible during the communication resulting from a web request, HTTP requires servers to respond to each request from its clients an HTTP response status code. A status code is typically a three-digit number that indicates the ...