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HTTP 303 — See Other

3xx Redirection

What it means

Redirects the client to fetch the result with GET, regardless of the original method. The classic POST-redirect-GET pattern.

What to do about it

Use it after a successful form POST so that a page refresh does not resubmit the form.

Where it sits

303 belongs to the 3xx family: Further action is needed to complete the request — usually following a redirect.

HTTP/1.1 303 See Other

Checking it yourself

# see the status code and headers only
curl -sI https://example.com/path

# follow redirects and print each hop
curl -sIL -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n" https://example.com/path

# JavaScript
const r = await fetch(url);
console.log(r.status, r.statusText);

Other 3xx codes

All HTTP status codes