XMLHttpRequest.status

The XMLHttpRequest.status property returns the numerical status code of the response of the XMLHttpRequest. status will be an unsigned short. Before the request is complete, the value of status will be 0. It is worth noting that browsers report a status of 0 in case of XMLHttpRequest errors too.

The status codes returned are the standard HTTP status codes. For example, status 200 denotes a successful request. If the server response doesn't explicitly specify a status code, XMLHttpRequest.status will assume the default value of 200.

Example

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
console.log('UNSENT', xhr.status);

xhr.open('GET', '/server', true);
console.log('OPENED', xhr.status);

xhr.onprogress = function () {
  console.log('LOADING', xhr.status);
};

xhr.onload = function () {
  console.log('DONE', xhr.status);
};

xhr.send(null);

/**
 * Outputs the following:
 *
 * UNSENT 0
 * OPENED 0
 * LOADING 200
 * DONE 200
 */

Specifications

Browser compatibility

[1] Internet Explorer versions 5 and 6 lacked the XMLHttpRequest object, but provided a way to make AJAX requests using ActiveXObject.

See also

• List of HTTP response codes