Difference in status and error codes

[amarkirt saroay]

what is the Difference in status and error codes?

[Bear Bibeault]

Error codes are status codes.

[Katrin Perry]

Hi,

My understanding is that:
Error codes are codes 4xx and 5xx. They could be used with sendError. If included in the response (programmatically-sendError or by the container) they would invoke the error mechaninsm, if there are error entries in web.xml like this one:

<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/error404.html</location>
</error-page>


The setStatus method is used to set status (information) responses (2xx and 3xx) and would not trigger the error mechanism.

I hope that this helps.

Thanks
Katrin