What's the least-crufty way to show the http response code?

gaekwad · 2025-10-04 21:03:34

I’d like to show the HTTP response code on a page. I’m curious if there’s a preferred way to do this.

We’ve got if_status as a conditional check for a supplied error (HTTP 4xx? Are there more?) code, and we’ve got error_status that outputs the aforementioned code. An HTTP 200 is a non-error status in Textpattern terminology, and so my route in to achieve this is:

<txp:if_status not status="200">
  <txp:error_status />
<txp:else />
  200
</txp:if_status>

Am I missing a magical tag that just outputs the HTTP response without the conditional check?

For bonus Internet magic beans: does Textpattern core emit any other non-error HTTP response codes over and above HTTP 200?

Bloke · 2025-10-04 21:10:35

That’s pretty much the best way. As far as I can recall, 200 is the only non-error we emit:

    $codes = array(
        '200' => 'OK',
        '301' => 'Moved Permanently',
        '302' => 'Found',
        '303' => 'See Other',
        '304' => 'Not Modified',
        '307' => 'Temporary Redirect',
        '308' => 'Permanent Redirect',
        '401' => 'Unauthorized',
        '403' => 'Forbidden',
        '404' => 'Not Found',
        '410' => 'Gone',
        '414' => 'Request-URI Too Long',
        '451' => 'Unavailable For Legal Reasons',
        '500' => 'Internal Server Error',
        '501' => 'Not Implemented',
        '503' => 'Service Unavailable'
    );

etc · 2025-10-04 21:12:42

Probably <txp:error_status default="200" />?

Bloke · 2025-10-04 21:15:07

etc wrote #340848:

Probably <txp:error_status default="200" />?

Oooh yeah, forgot that default was a global attribute. Good hack.

gaekwad · 2025-10-04 21:20:58

etc wrote #340848:

Probably <txp:error_status default="200" />?

Ooh, clever. Thank you, etc!

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