.. _apimanref_httpresp:

HTTP Response Codes 
===================

The HTTP response status codes are specified in section 6 of the `RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.1 standard <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html>`_.

The following table lists the more common status codes you may receive:

+--------------+-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Method       | Code  | Meaning                 | Resolution                            |
+==============+=======+=========================+=======================================+
| **GET**      | 200   | Resource exists         |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 301   | Permanently moved       |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 401   | Authorization error     |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 404   | Not found               |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 410   | No longer exists        |  --                                   |
+--------------+-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| **PUT/POST** | 200   | Resource replaced       |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 201   | Resource created        |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 204   | No response             |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 301   | Redirect                |Usually, missing the trailing slash    |  
|              |       |                         |'/' in the URI                         |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 400   | Invalid data            |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 401   | Authorization error     |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 409   | Resource state conflict |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 500   | Internal error          |  Django error; enable debugging to    |
|              |       |                         |  evaluate (see :ref:`apiug-debug`)    | 
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 501   | Method not implemented  |  --                                   |
+--------------+-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| **DELETE**   | 200   | Resource deleted        |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 400   | Resource not deleted    |  --                                   |
+              +-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|              | 401   | Authorization error     |  --                                   |
+--------------+-------+-------------------------+---------------------------------------+