r14021@Kushana: nickm | 2007-08-14 16:16:58 -0400

7.2. HTTP status codes

  XXX We should write down what return codes dirservers send in what situations.

  Tor delivers the following status codes.  Some were chosen without much

  thought; other code SHOULD NOT rely on specific status codes yet.

  200 -- the operation completed successfully

      -- the user requested statuses or serverdescs, and none of the ones we

         requested were found (0.2.0.4-alpha and earlier).

  304 -- the client specified an if-modified-since time, and none of the

         requested resources have changed since that time.

  400 -- the request is malformed, or

      -- the URL is for a malformed variation of one of the URLs we support,

          or

      -- the client tried to post to a non-authority, or

      -- the authority rejected a malformed posted document, or

  404 -- the requested document was not found.

      -- the user requested statuses or serverdescs, and none of the ones we

         requested were found (0.2.0.5-alpha and later).

  503 -- we are declining the request in order to save bandwidth

      -- user requested some items that we ordinarily generate or store,

         but we do not have any available.

9. Backward compatibility and migration plans