Satisfying answers are great! HTTP status codes are satisfying answers.
they are the standard
they are simple
they can help answer the question ‘why’
Sites I like that get into HTTP status codes
This zine for HTTP: Learn your browser's language! No prior knowledge required, and it’s pretty!
This site to generate different HTTP codes. I use it as a quick reference wiki. I also used it to learn about the easter egg 418, I’m a teapot*
*to be used by teapots if they get a request to brew coffee. We now have IoT appliances that can do that so this wasn’t too far off when it was made in 1998.
also credit for encoding with UTF-8 and providing global support with internationalization in URIs [URLI18N]. I enjoyed checking the Arabic "%D9%82%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A9" ; I used a URL Decoder/Encoder to decode that to قهوة
This site to trace the redirection paths of URLs including the HTTP status codes along the way.
I just updated this site’s 404 and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. To get there, just go add any random extension at the end of my site. Here’s an example, and check out what the URL shows after you get there: https://johntrack.com/%D9%82%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A9