[thelist] Status codes for "not ready yet"

[Lee Kowalkowski]

On 1 February 2011 04:00, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:
> A client makes an ajax call to fetch some data.  There are a number of
> different responses possible.  I want to use HTTP status codes to represent
> each response type.
>
>   1. Data available and returned in response.  HTTP status = 200
>   2. The data is not ready yet, check back later at this same URL.
>   3. The data will never be available (e.g. feature not implemented for
>   your account).
>   4. The data cannot be returned (e.g. timed out trying to fetch data or
>   some other kind of failure).
>
> What HTTP status codes would you suggest for the responses other than the
> first?

Looking at the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes:

2. 202 Accepted
3. 403 Forbidden (for you) or 501 Not Implemented (for everyone)
4. 503 Service unavailable

Remember 4xx errors are for client problems, and 5xx are for server problems.

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Lee
www.webdeavour.co.uk