Why would a server not set a HTTP Response Code?

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  •  03-07-2019
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Question

I'm asking in generalities - why would any server not set and return headers and/or status codes? I can't think of a good reason for this. Perhaps I'm overlooking something.

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Solution

The Status-Code is a required part of a HTTP Response.

By definition, the only reason for a server not to provide a Status-Line is that it is not a HTTP server.

RFC 2616, section 6: Response.

Or said in a slightly less pedant way: if it does this, the server is hopelessly buggy and you should run away from it screaming.

OTHER TIPS

Status codes were introduced in HTTP/1.0 - prior to this, things were much simpler - there were no headers in the request or the response.

A request was simply like this, with no indication of the protocol version

GET /

The response would be all body, with no headers.

So it looks like you are talking to some kind of antique webserver which only speaks HTTP/0.9!

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