On the Internet, data exchanges are materialized by codes that may or may not appear on the web page. Today, let’s take a look at the 302 code.
When you surf the Internet, it may happen that when you click on a page or go to a URL, the page displayed is not exactly the one you clicked on.
Shoppers have often had this experience especially during the sales period. Indeed, on a merchant site for example, when a product runs out and the stocks are therefore empty, the site managers sometimes redirect their audience directly to similar products. No, you were not mistaken, it was the site that directed you to this page.
To do this, he used a redirect code also known as code 302.
Code 302, 404, 504… what do these numbers correspond to?
These three-digit sequences are called status codes or “status codes” in English, they allow Internet users and site managers to obtain information on the state of relations between:
When you browse the Internet, these three elements are in constant communication. To summarize, here is how data is exchanged on the web:
The web client makes a request to a server. This consists of asking it to display a web page.
The server receives the request, analyzes it and fetches the requested page from its database. Once found, it sends it back to the browser, the web client.
The latter receives the data from the server, processes them and therefore displays the page requested by the user (you).
The status codes therefore make it possible to know the situation in which the relationship between the various elements mentioned is found. If we especially have in mind, the display of a 404 code when the page is not found or 504 when the server takes too long to respond, there are codes that do not always materialize. This is the case of a 302 code.
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What is a 302 code?
Code 302 corresponds to a response sent by the server to the browser. This tells him that the page initially sought is temporarily redirected. The page on which the user (you) will land is therefore not the one he was originally looking for.
It is a code often used by merchant sites when one of their products is missing but there are similar ones that could still satisfy the customer.
Only here, the PS5 is no longer available because stocks are really rare, the page is therefore no longer accessible
FNAC or Amazon can therefore make the decision for you redirect directly to the page concerning the PS4 or the Xbox Series X or S in order to satisfy potential buyers
Once PS5 stocks become available again, the page will be reactivated and users will be able to go there to try to win the precious sesame released two years ago and struggling to find takers due to lack of stock.
Thus, status codes are not not necessarily synonymous with a problem occurring in the data exchange. They are there for informational purposes only. By the way, did you know that there is a status code that indicates that everything is going well? This is code 200. You will never see it but tell yourself that when you arrive on the page you want it is this code that attests to it.
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