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Common HTTP status codes.

Tests whether you can map status code ranges to meaning precisely -- 2xx success, 3xx redirection, 4xx client error (caller's fault, don't retry blindly), 5xx server error (may be safe to retry) -- rather than only naming 200, 404, and 500.

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