Error messages have their place and should give useful information, it’s important to get them right.
System Network Problems
- No Internet
- No connection to local Internet supply (eg WiFi)
- Power failure
- Network hardware failure
- Password:
- incorrect login details
- password expired or been reset
- wrong website!
- Virus infection
Web Page Error Messages – Most Common
- 500 Internal Server Error
- 401 Unauthorised
- 400 Bad Request
- 403 Forbidden
- 404 Not Found
- 501 Not Implemented
- 502 Service Temporarily Overloaded
- 503 Service Unavailable
- Connection Refused by Host
- File Contains No Data
- Cannot Add Form Submission Result to Bookmark List
- Helper Application Not Found
- TCP Error Encountered While Sending Request to Server
- Failed DNS Look-Up
- 408 – Request Time-Out
Q: Do you know what they mean?