http return code 200

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Re: http return code 200 by davorg (Chancellor) on Feb 02, 2007 at 13:52 UTC
What exactly does "http return code 200" mean What did Google tell you? how do I instruct Perl to return such a result? That's the default status that gets returned by a CGI program unless you tell it specifically to return something else. It really sounds like you'd benefit from reading Ovid's CGI course. -- <http://dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re: http return code 200 by jhourcle (Prior) on Feb 02, 2007 at 13:49 UTC
200 means the request was completed successfully. See the HTTP specs, section 10 for the different status codes and what they mean. As for how to generate them in perl, it's as simple as: `print "200 ok\n\n";` If you're talking HTTP/0.9 ... if you're using the CGI module, 200 is assumed when you call `header()` ... if you want some other code, call `header( -status => $code )`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: http return code 200 by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 02, 2007 at 13:55 UTC
Hi Gorby, What exactly does "http return code 200" mean Check out the HTTP status code definitions here. Check out CGI Programming section the Tutorials section of this site regards achieving this using the CGI module. Hope this helps Martin	[reply]
Re: http return code 200 by Trizor (Pilgrim) on Feb 02, 2007 at 21:57 UTC
A speedier but more complex alternative to CGI.pm suggested in the other comments is of course mod_perl and Apache. If you are running in an apache environment all you need to do is `return Apache2::Const::OK;` from a handler, or simply not error out in a Registry or PerlRun script. Apache will handle the HTTP Status code for you.	[reply] [d/l]