Appendix D. HTTP Status Codes and Header Fields

More than 40 status code messages and 50 header fields have been defined for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Table D.1 and Table D.2 list some of these status codes and HTTP header fields. To obtain information on the status codes and HTTP header fields, access RFC 2616 from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt?number=2616.

Table D.1 describes some of the HTTP status codes.

Table D.1. HTTP Status Codes
Status Code Description
200 Indicates that the HTTP server has successfully processed the request.
201 Indicates that the request has been successfully processed and that the request has resulted in the creation of a new resource specified as a URI provided in the Entity field of the HTTP response ...

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