Introduction
The Internet is a network of computers. Some of these computers are servers and many are clients. A server computer is called a host and a client computer is also called a host. The clients are like the ones in your office or your home that have the browser. Information from your computer would pass through other computers in the network, before reaching the server. Information from the server would also pass through other computers in the network, before reaching your computer.

Information that goes to-and-fro as described above is possible only if it respects a set of rules called the HTTP protocol. There is software in the Internet that implements the HTTP protocol. So far as you, the client and your browser are concerned, if there is an error in the transmission of information, from server to client, the software would send the error message to your browser. An error message consists of a number and a short text. Some of the short texts are not explicit, so I will explain the inexplicit ones. The error messages have been typed in their different categories. In this post, I introduce you to an article that gives you a list of the error numbers and their corresponding text messages.

What will you gain after reading the article? After reading the article, you will be able to understand the error messages that browsers display. The browser can display error messages that the website designer included in his design. I am not referring to those types. I am referring to the types that come from the transmission or the server. Usually the browser displays these types in a web page layout different from that of the website designer.

An example of such a message is, "404 Not Found", which means the page is not found at the server. Well, the list in the article does not have only error messages; it also has confirmation messages like, "200 OK", which means the request is OK.

Do you have to memorize the numbers and the corresponding text messages? No. The article is in a web page, free for you to access at anytime. The article is part of my web design free course. I hope you will appreciate the article and the whole course.

The article (list) has been written properly. No special character is missing in the article, as you would find in other sites. Click the following link to see the list (it is preceded by some text info).

HTTP Status Messages

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