2xx Success

200 OK

The request succeeded and the response body has the result (the page, the JSON, the file).

When you see it

Every normal page view and successful API call.
An error page sent with 200 by mistake (a "soft 404"), which search engines then index as a real page.

1
Nothing to fix for real content.
2
Make sure "not found" and error pages send 404 / 500, not 200, so they don't get indexed.

Returning a view or array from a controller sends 200. Use abort(404) or response()->json($data, 404) for errors so the status is right.

The first line of the response shows the status code; -L follows redirects and shows each step.

curl -I https://example.com/page
curl -IL https://example.com/old-page

What does HTTP 200 mean?

The request succeeded and the response body has the result (the page, the JSON, the file).

How does Laravel handle 200?

Returning a view or array from a controller sends 200. Use abort(404) or response()->json($data, 404) for errors so the status is right.

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