Question

i am just wondering about the HTTP status codes that should be checked against if something fails and i am returned within something other than the standard 202, there are alot of status codes but i am wondering what ones should be checked for the majority of the time,

i am using android but this is similar through the whole web, so it would nice if someone could tell which ones they test for and what messages they show to users.

and how would i find out the status code of a response in android?

Answer 1

Depends on what your servers is expected to send.

• 200, of course
• 201 if you create something (a post or sometimes a put)
• 202 if your server does not send anything (but it succeded) (most servers don’t send that)
• 302 if your data can be moved (most httpclient do that for you)
• 304 if your data can be unmodified
• 401 if you are doing authentication
• 4xx for any other client side error
• 5xx for server side errors