What are the essential HTTP Status Codes to detect Broken Links?

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What are the essential HTTP Status Codes to detect Broken Links?

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Hey Charity,

Each time a user visits a website, the server responds with an HTTP Response Status Code. This code indicates which individual action has been taken in reference to the web page that the user is visiting.

A 404 error means that the server is still reachable but the page you are looking for is not present. Essentially, it’s a page that doesn’t exist, or it’s broken.

There are five major classes of HTTP status codes:

  • Informational responses (100–199)
  • Successful responses (200–299)
  • Redirects (300–399
  • Client errors (400–499)
  • Server errors (500–599)

Here are some of the different ways in which 404 errors can appear:

  • 404 Not Found Error
  • 404 HTTP 404
  • 404 Page Not Found
  • Error 404 Not Found
  • HTTP 404 Not Found
  • The requested URL was not found on this server
  • 404 File or Directory Not Found
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Thanks Shahzebh, That was a great help!

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