208 Already Reported

Used inside a WebDAV Multi-Status response so the same member is not listed twice.

Code: 208
Reason phrase: Already Reported
Class: 2xx Success
Defined in: RFC 5842 section 7.1
Cacheable by default: No

What it means

Success: the request was received, understood and accepted.

Common causes. WebDAV bindings that make a collection appear more than once.

What to do. Nothing.

How clients and crawlers treat it

Caching. Not cacheable by default (RFC 9110 section 15.1 does not list it). A cache stores it only when the response says so with Cache-Control or Expires.

Example response

HTTP/1.1 208 Already Reported
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Already Reported

How to send 208

nginx

location /example {
    return 208 'Already Reported';
}

PHP

http_response_code(208);
echo 'Already Reported';
exit;

Node.js

res.writeHead(208, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
res.end('Already Reported');

Python (Flask)

# in a view function
return 'Already Reported', 208

Change the paths to suit. In nginx, add_header needs always to apply to error responses.

Related codes

All status codes · All 2xx codes

Names and numbers from the IANA HTTP Status Code Registry. Google Search behaviour as documented by Google Search Central.