HTTP Status Codes & their Significance

What is HTTP status codes? How it helps to identify the problem in HTTP request. In this tutorial, we are going to walk through HTTP status codes & their significance.

What is HTTP status codes?

HTTP status codes are the response code of a HTTP request which tells whether the request is successfully completed or not.

For example, Suppose you have typed theĀ URL in your browser and hit enter. This HTTP request goes to a server. If the web page does not exist it returns 404 page not found. So, 404 is a standard HTTP status code. It means the requested web page does not exist.

HTTP Status Code Response Classes

HTTP status code response is grouped into five classes.

1xx – Informational responses

2xx – Successful responses

3xx – Redirection messages

4xx – Client Error responses

5xx – Server error responses