HTTP 200 — OK

2xx Success

What it means

The request succeeded. For GET the body contains the resource; for POST it contains the result of the action.

What to do about it

Nothing to fix — this is the normal success response.

Where it sits

200 belongs to the 2xx family: The request was received, understood and accepted.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Checking it yourself

# see the status code and headers only
curl -sI https://example.com/path

# follow redirects and print each hop
curl -sIL -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n" https://example.com/path

# JavaScript
const r = await fetch(url);
console.log(r.status, r.statusText);

How this code behaves

Returning 200 correctly

# nginx
return 200;

# Express
res.status(200).json({ error: 'OK' });

# Go
w.WriteHeader(200)

# Python (Flask)
return jsonify(error='OK'), 200;

Frequently asked questions

Other 2xx codes

• 201 Created
• 202 Accepted
• 204 No Content
• 206 Partial Content

All HTTP status codes