Status Line

About

The status line or response line is the first line in the response message.¹.

Status line contents

It consists of three items:

1. The HTTP version number, showing the HTTP specification to which the server has tried to make the message comply
2. A status code, which is a three-digit number indicating the result of the request
3. A reason phrase, also known as status text, which is human-readable text that summarises the meaning of the status code

Example

An example of a response line is:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

In this example:

• the HTTP version is HTTP/1.1
• the status code is 200
• the reason phrase is OK

Anki

Links

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• HTTP response

References