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Funny way to finally remember all of these, the boring text version of http status codes you can find here.

1xx Informational

• 100 Continue
• 101 Switching Protocols

2xx Successful

• 200 OK : should be used to indicate a non-specific success
• 201 Created : must be used to indicate successful resource creation
• 202 Accepted : must be used to indicate a succesful start of an asynchronous action and should only be send by controllers
• 203 Non-Authoritative Information
• 204 No Content : should be used when the response body is intentionally empty
• 205 Reset Content
• 206 Partial Content

3xx Redirection

• 300 Multiple Choices
• 301 Moved Permanently : should be used to relocate resources
• 302 Found : should only redirect automatically when it was a get or head request
• 303 See Other : should be used to refer the client to a different uri, so sending a reference to a client without forcing it to download it's state
• 304 Not Modified : should be used to preserve bandwidth and the response body must be empty
• 305 Use Proxy
• 306 (Unused)
• 307 Temporary Redirect : should be used to tell clients to resubmit the request to another uri
• 308 Permanent Redirect : does not allow to change the method

4xx Client Error

• 400 Bad Request : may be used to indicate non-specific failure
• 401 Unauthorized : must be used when there is a problem with the clients credentials
• 402 Payment Required
• 403 Forbidden : should be used to forbid access regardless of authorization state, so for any requests outside the clients permitted scope
• 404 Not Found : must be used when a client uri cannnot be mapped to a resource
• 405 Method Not Allowed : must be used when the http method is not supported, for example using a PUT on a read-only resource (must include the allow header in response)
• 406 Not Acceptable : must be used when requested media type cannot be served (accept request header)
• 407 Proxy Authentication Required
• 408 Request Timeout
• 409 Conflict : should be used to indicate a violation of resource state, for example a client tries to delete a non empty store
• 410 Gone
• 411 Length Required
• 412 Precondition Failed
• 413 Request Entity Too Large
• 414 Request-URI Too Long
• 415 Unsupported Media Type : must be used when the media type of a requests payload cannot be processed (content type header)
• 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
• 417 Expectation Failed
• 418 I'm a teapot (RFC 2324)
• 419 Authentication Timeout
• 420 Enhance Your Calm (use 429 instead)
• 421 Bad mapping
• 422 Unprocessable Entity
• 423 Locked
• 424 Failed Dependency
• 425 Unordered Collection
• 426 Upgrade Required
• 427 Soap action required (in case your api is dirty)
• 428 Precondition Required (RFC 6585)
• 429 Too Many Requests (RFC 6585)
• 430 (not used ?? sometimes misused for 431)
• 431 Request Header Fields Too Large (RFC 6585)

5xx Server Error

• 500 Internal Server Error
• 501 Not Implemented
• 502 Bad Gateway
• 503 Service Unavailable
• 504 Gateway Timeout
• 505 HTTP Version Not Supported

5xx Server Error

• 500 Internal Server Error
• 501 Not Implemented
• 502 Bad Gateway
• 503 Service Unavailable
• 504 Gateway Timeout
• 505 HTTP Version Not Supported
• 520 Origin Error
• 521 Web server is down
• 522 Connection timed out
• 523 Proxy Declined Request
• 524 A timeout occured

7xx Developer Error

• 70x - Inexcusable
• 701 - Meh
• 702 - Emacs
• 703 - Explosion
• 704 - Goto Fail
• 705 - I wrote the code and missed the necessary validation by an oversight (see 795)
• 71x - Novelty Implementations
• 710 - PHP
• 711 - Convenience Store
• 712 - NoSQL
• 719 - I am not a teapot
• 72x - Edge Cases
• 720 - Unpossible
• 721 - Known Unknowns
• 722 - Unknown Unknowns
• 723 - Tricky
• 724 - This line should be unreachable
• 725 - It works on my machine
• 726 - It's a feature, not a bug
• 727 - 32 bits is plenty
• 73x - F*cking
• 731 - F*cking Rubygems
• 732 - F*cking Unic💩de
• 733 - F*cking Deadlocks
• 734 - F*cking Deferreds
• 735 - F*cking IE
• 736 - F*cking Race Conditions
• 737 - F*ckThreadsing
• 738 - F*cking Bundler
• 739 - F*cking Windows
• 74x - Meme Driven
• 740 - Computer says no
• 741 - Compiling
• 742 - A kitten dies
• 743 - I thought I knew regular expressions
• 744 - Y U NO write integration tests?
• 745 - I don't always test my code, but when I do I do it in production
• 746 - Missed Ballmer Peak
• 747 - Motherf*cking Snakes on the Motherf*cking Plane
• 748 - Confounded by Ponies
• 749 - Reserved for Chuck Norris
• 75x - Syntax Errors
• 750 - Didn't bother to compile it
• 753 - Syntax Error
• 754 - Too many semi-colons
• 755 - Not enough semi-colons
• 756 - Insufficiently polite
• 757 - Excessively polite
• 759 - Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
• 76x - Substance-Affected Developer
• 761 - Hungover
• 762 - Stoned
• 763 - Under-Caffeinated
• 764 - Over-Caffeinated
• 765 - Railscamp
• 766 - Sober
• 767 - Drunk
• 768 - Accidentally Took Sleeping Pills Instead Of Migraine Pills During Crunch Week
• 769 - Questionable Maturity Level
• 77x - Predictable Problems
• 771 - Cached for too long
• 772 - Not cached long enough
• 773 - Not cached at all
• 774 - Why was this cached?
• 776 - Error on the Exception
• 777 - Coincidence
• 778 - Off By One Error
• 779 - Off By Too Many To Count Error
• 78x - Somebody Else's Problem
• 780 - Project owner not responding
• 781 - Operations
• 782 - QA
• 783 - It was a customer request, honestly
• 784 - Management, obviously
• 785 - TPS Cover Sheet not attached
• 786 - Try it now
• 787 - Further Funding Required
• 79x - Internet crashed
• 791 - The Internet shut down due to copyright restrictions.
• 792 - Climate change driven catastrophic weather event
• 793 - Zombie Apocalypse
• 794 - Someone let PG near a REPL
• 795 - #heartbleed (see 705)
• 797 - This is the last page of the Internet. Go back
• 799 - End of the world

Still need more?

• http://www.w3.org/Protocols/
• http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585