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   Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
   license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

.. meta::
    :description: Dealing with HTTP status code and HTTP exceptions with Splinter
    :keywords: splinter, python, tutorial, documentation, exception, http error, status code

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HTTP Status Code and Exceptions
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**Note:** After 0.8 version the `webdriver` (firefox, chrome) based drivers does not support http error
handling.

Dealing with HTTP status code
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It's also possible to check which HTTP status code a browser.visit gets. You can use ``status_code.is_success`` to do the work
for you or you can compare the status code directly:

.. highlight:: python

::

    browser.visit('http://cobrateam.info')
    browser.status_code.is_success() # True
    # or
    browser.status_code == 200 # True
    # or
    browser.status_code.code # 200

The difference between those methods is that if you get a redirect (or something that is not an HTTP error),
``status_code.is_success`` will consider your response as successfully. The numeric status code can be accessed via
``status_code.code``.