302 Qualifiers (Redirect, Found, Moved Temporarily) displaying in Firebug

[Josh K]

Hello,
I've been a user of Firebug for a while and love it!  I just ran into something I'm trying to figure out.  The situation is this:  There is a corporate page (that I do not manage) that contains links to various internal services. I am managing one of those services and am trying to diagnose an issue with users failing to go from the main page to my service.  The connection is redirected twice in the main server before it is sent to my service.  I'm using Firebug to watch the connection redirects and am wondering why I am seeing Firebug show different types of 302's.  There is a redirect in my service to test some new functionality for some users which is the reason for the third 302.  Here's what I see in the Net panel (just URL and Status columns for simplicity):

URL                     Status
--------------------------------------------------------------
GET url1              302 Redirect
GET url2.aspx     302 Found
GET myservice   302 Moved Temporarily    ....
GET myservice   200 OK
....

I am wondering if there is documentation describing what Firebug uses to determine the qualifier for each 302?  It seems that each 302 should be a temporary move, but Firebug is making me think there is more information it is using to populate the Net panel that may be helpful in diagnosing my issue.

Any insight would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[Sebastian Zartner]

The text for the HTTP status code is set by the server. In PHP for example you can set it like this:

header("HTTP/1.1 200 Everything's fine");

The important part for the browser is the status code, the text is just for human readability. For 302 the official text is "Found". For a list of all status codes see RFC 7231.

Sebastian

[Josh K]

Great! 

So Firebug parses out the header response text after the response code and adds that to the Net panel.  Very nifty and thanks for clarifying!