The 2xx family of status codes are used in HTTP responses to indicate success. Beyond the generic 200 OK status code, there are a set of more specific success status codes that provide additional context or details about the specific nature of the successful request/response. We will explore the available success status codes, and what additional information they convey.
Difference between 201 and 202:
Both for post request, difference is 201 means successfully create new data on the server, it will return 'Location' prop in the header.
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For 202, "Accepted", mean the request was accepted, but the data is not immedicatly available, there is no location prop:
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206: Partial content, it is useful when we want to continue downloading the file , it tells how many bytes has been downloaded, and the total number of bytes:
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