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Chapter 4. Service and API Design > Successful Responses
Successful Responses
In addition to standardizing URI design, APIs should also standardize, as much as possible, successful HTTP responses. This section describes some standards that an API may want to include for successful responses.
HTTP Status Codes
RESTful APIs should use the following HTTP status codes to reflect the outcomes of service responses. In the case of successful responses, the first three status codes are the most important and are generally the only ones you need:
