How to enjoy with HTTP Status Codes?

Most of the users are aware about what HTTP Status Codes are all about. Status codes such as 404 and 500 errors are popular among most of the tech geeks. However there are several funnier aspects behind most of the status codes among the technological enthusiasts. Most of the non-developers are familiar with terms such as 404-Not Found as well as 500-Internal Server Error or 503-Service Unavailable. Let’s take a close look on what each of these status codes means to users.

Code 100: Informational

The 100 series code is comprised of especially 3 codes namely Code 100, Code 101 and Code 102 and is among the shortest code in the series of HTTP status codes. Usually these codes return an informational message which looks like ‘I am working on it’. This message cannot be considered as an error at the same time it cannot be considered as a success too.

Code 200: Success

Code 200 is almost visible across the logs most of the time. This code suggests the request to be successful. This means the processing within the server was completed successfully by returning something or it might return nothing. The server displays message such as ‘Here you go’. 200 series of code can be mainly classified in to 7 variants beginning from HTTP Status Code 200 to HTTP Status Code 206.
Code 300: Redirection

300 http status codes are comprised of 8 variants which denote users are redirected to some other page either permanently or temporarily. These codes prove to be of immense use whenever content has to be transferred from the server. Redirecting codes are useful at a time when the website owner is not able to update the client that continue to browse the older URLs and also to ensure the search engine indexing does not get lost.

Code 400: Client Error

A client error occurs whenever a Server responds to a client that includes browser as well as mobile app etc. Of the 400 code series, Code 404 is the most popular code which denotes ‘404-Not Found’ that would be displayed whenever a link is broken and also at times when the URL no longer exists. The 400 series codes is comprised of a total of 26 codes out of which most of them covers the possible details regarding what the error is for and this might include factors such as authorization issues, permission issues to unexpected or wrong parameters. Of this, some of the codes are quite humorous including Code 451-Unavailable for Legal Reasons and Code 418-I’m a Teapot.
Code 500: Server Error

500 http status codes can be considered more of a server counterpart for 400 client errors. The errors can be unexplained server error or it can be due to storage as well as timeout issues. The 500 series are comprised of a total of 11 codes and displays the message that it messed up rather than considering it as a user’s fault.

The most popular and humorous http status codes were code 418 and code 451. In the year 1998, 418 Code was considered to be among the April Fool Jokes. Similar was Code 451-Unavailable for Legal Reasons which was used whenever a website has been denied access due to censorship issues.