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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