Additional HTTP Status Codes
RFC 6585
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(April 2012; No errata)
Updates RFC 2616
Was draft-nottingham-http-new-status (individual in app area)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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| Responsible AD | Barry Leiba | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Nottingham
Request for Comments: 6585 Rackspace
Updates: 2616 R. Fielding
Category: Standards Track Adobe
ISSN: 2070-1721 April 2012
Additional HTTP Status Codes
Abstract
This document specifies additional HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
status codes for a variety of common situations.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6585.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Requirements ....................................................2
3. 428 Precondition Required .......................................2
4. 429 Too Many Requests ...........................................3
5. 431 Request Header Fields Too Large .............................4
6. 511 Network Authentication Required .............................4
7. Security Considerations .........................................6
8. IANA Considerations .............................................7
9. References ......................................................7
Appendix A. Acknowledgements .......................................9
Appendix B. Issues Raised by Captive Portals .......................9
1. Introduction
This document specifies additional HTTP [RFC2616] status codes for a
variety of common situations, to improve interoperability and avoid
confusion when other, less precise status codes are used.
Note that these status codes are optional; servers cannot be required
to support them. However, because clients will treat unknown status
codes as a generic error of the same class (e.g., 499 is treated as
400 if it is not recognized), they can be safely deployed by existing
servers (see [RFC2616] Section 6.1.1 for more information).
2. Requirements
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
3. 428 Precondition Required
The 428 status code indicates that the origin server requires the
request to be conditional.
Its typical use is to avoid the "lost update" problem, where a client
GETs a resource's state, modifies it, and PUTs it back to the server,
when meanwhile a third party has modified the state on the server,
leading to a conflict. By requiring requests to be conditional, the
server can assure that clients are working with the correct copies.
Responses using this status code SHOULD explain how to resubmit the
request successfully. For example:
HTTP/1.1 428 Precondition Required
Content-Type: text/html
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RFC 6585 Additional HTTP Status Codes April 2012
<html>
<head>
<title>Precondition Required</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Precondition Required</h1>
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