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Example 1: http status codes

2xx :  SUCCESS 
				200 OK : success 
				201 CREATED : successfully added data 
				204 NO-CONTENT successfully updated or deleted 
            
            3xx : REDIRECTION
            	304 NOT MODIFIED: 

			4xx :  CLIENT SIDE ERROR 
				400 BAD REQUEST : bad data being sent 
                401 UNAUTHORIZED : 
                403 FORBIDDEN :
				404 NOT FOUND : the resource does not exists at that location 
				405 METHOD NOT ALLOWED :
						DELETE /api/spartans -->> 405 error 
				406 NOT ACCEPTABLE
				415 Unsupported Media type
					if you forget to specify the Content-Type
					of Post request body, it will see it as plain text
					and it will throw this error if it does not support
			
			5xx : Server side error 
				500 internal service error 	
				If the server do not have any mapping of the url 
				requested to handle the action -->> 500
                503 SERVICE UNAVAILABLE :
                504 GATEWAY TIMEOUT :

Example 2: http status codes

Some important http status codes are:
200: The one you will mostly want to get. Succesful transfer
301: Moved Permanently. 300 defines Redirections
404: Not found. 400: bad requests as 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden.
502: Bad Gateway. 500 defines Internal Server Errors.

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