HTTP 200 OK is the standard success response. The meaning depends on the request method: for GET, the resource is returned in the body; for POST, the result of the action is described in the body. This is the most common HTTP status code.
Status
200 OKExample
GET /about HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Accept: text/htmlHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 354
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>About Us - Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>About Us</h1>
<p>We are a small team building useful things on the web.</p>
</body>
</html>How to Troubleshoot
Verify response body
Check that the response body contains the expected content. A 200 with an empty or error-page body may indicate a soft error.
curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{size_download}' https://example.com/Check Content-Type header
Ensure the Content-Type header matches the actual content returned.
Verify DNS resolution
If you are getting 200 from the wrong server, check that DNS resolves to the correct IP.
Check DNS RecordsCommon Causes
Successful page load or API call
highThe server processed the request normally and returned the expected content.
Custom error page returning 200
lowSome misconfigured servers return 200 OK with an error page body instead of the correct 4xx/5xx status code (soft 404).
Quick Diagnostics
Related Status Codes
References
| Specification | Section |
|---|---|
| HTTP Semantics | RFC 9110 §15.3.1 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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