Which HTTP Status Codes to cover for MVC error handling

Question

I\'m currently developing custom error pages in my error handling code for my MVC application. But I\'m unclear as to which HTTP status codes I\'m meant to cover.

Answer 1

Don't rely too much on http status codes.

I have worked with a few bad web developers over the last couple of years that have incorrectly used them in their responses.

I may look for codes within 200-299 for an indication of success. I may look for codes >500 to indicate a server failure.

Beyond that, I use a selfish approach i.e. if you are making a request that your are expecting to have a package of data returned to you, then inspect the data. If there is no data or if the data is bad then I know for certain that there was a problem, because I didn't get what I needed to continue running my application in a nominal way.