Specification of the HTTP status code 208

The 208 Already Reported status code can be used inside a DAV: propstat response element to avoid enumerating the internal members of multiple bindings to the same collection repeatedly. For each binding to a collection inside the request's scope, only one will be reported with a 200 status, while subsequent DAV:response elements for all other bindings will use the 208 Already Reported status, and no DAV:response elements for their descendants are included.

Note that the 208 Already Reported status will only occur for "Depth: infinity" requests, and that it is of particular importance when the multiple collection bindings cause a bind loop as discussed in Section 2.2.

A client can request the DAV:resource-id property in a PROPFIND request to guarantee that they can accurately reconstruct the binding structure of a collection with multiple bindings to a single resource.

For backward compatibility with clients not aware of the 208 Already Reported status code appearing in multistatus response bodies, it SHOULD NOT be used unless the client has signaled support for this specification using the "DAV" request header (see Section 8.2). Instead, a 508 status should be returned when a binding loop is discovered. This allows the server to return the 508 as the top-level return status, if it discovers it before it started the response, or in the middle of a multistatus, if it discovers it in the middle of streaming out a multistatus response.

HTTP/1.1 (1999)

HTTP/2 (2022)

HTTP/3 (2022)

http-statuscode.com (Test Status code 208)

httpstat.us (Test Status code 208)

In order to be able to display the HTTP status code (in this case 208 Already Reported) and other information on the client side, the development console must be opened with F12. Afterwards you have to navigate to the tab "Network". Now you can open the page, in the network tab you should see the web page (example index.php). This must be selected and then the Herder section must be selected. Here the user will see the following result:

developer.mozilla.org (Status code 208)

en.wikipedia.org (Status code 208)

httpwg.org (HTTP Semantics Status code 208)

🐕 Dog Memes (Status code 208)

🐈 Cat Memes (Status code 208)