Why does my HTTP request return status code 200 and redirection instructions?

Question

When querying a website I get the following response:

{ status code: 200, headers {
    "Cache-Control" = "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0";
    Connection = "keep-alive";
    "Content-Encoding" = gzip;
    "Content-Type" = "application/json; charset=UTF-8";
    Date = "Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:35:20 GMT";
    Expires = "Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT";
    Pragma = "no-cache";
    Server = nginx;
    "Set-Cookie" = "SESSID=kvccccc; expires=Sat, 14-Jun-2014 13:35:20 GMT; Max-Age=5184000; path=/; domain=.xxxxxxxx.com; HttpOnly";
    "Transfer-Encoding" = Identity;
    Vary = "Accept-Encoding";
    "X-Powered-By" = "PHP/5.5.10";
} } 

and the following data in the body:

{"status":"redirect","url":"\/terminal"} 

What kind of redirection is this? I thought redirection has a status code beginning with a 3. In my case, I get a status code of 200. How should I handle this response in my app?

BTW: I am developing an iOS / Mac OS X app using Objective-C.

Answer 1

The webservice is returning this in the body: it's not part of the header. In fact, you get a 200 OK from the server, there's no real redirection here.

So, you should treat it as usual data.