200 OK

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The HTTP 200 OK successful response status code indicates that a request has succeeded. A 200 OK response is cacheable by default1.

200 OK response depending on HTTP request method

A 200 OK response has a different meaning and format depending on the HTTP request method .

Here is how they vary for different methods :

Although possible, successful PUT or DELETE requests often do not result in a 200 OK response . It is more common to see 201 Created if the resource is uploaded or created for the first time, or 204 No Content upon successful deletion of a resource .

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200 OK

Examples

Receivig a 200 OK for a GET request

In this example, a successful GET request to https://example.com returns a 200 OK response . The response includes representation headers and a message body with the HTML content:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Age: 294510
Cache-Control: max-age=604800
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 21:57:00 GMT
Etag: "3147526947"
Expires: Thu, 08 May 2025 21:57:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Thu, 08 May 2025 21:58:00 GMT
Server: ECAcc (nyd/D10E)
X-Cache: HIT
Content-Length: 1234

<!doctype html>
<!-- HTML content follows here -->

Receiving 200 OK for a POST request in form submission

Assuming a form exists to send data to an endpoint for managing subscriptions at http://example.com/subscribe. A POST request to subscribe a user may look like the following:

POST /subscribe HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 50

name=Jack%20Doe&email=jack.doe%40example.com

In this example, a response with a 200 OK status could look like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "message": "User subscription pending. A confirmation email has been sent.",
  "subscription": {
    "name": "Jack Doe",
    "email": "jack.doe@example.com",
    "id": 123,
    "feed": "default"
  }
}

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References

  1. MDN. “200 OK”. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/200 . (Accessed: [2025-05-08 Thu 21:14]). ↩︎

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