httpcode(1) explains the meaning of an HTTP status code on the command line

SYNOPSIS

hc [ options ] [ code ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the httpcode commands.

httpcode is a little utility that explains the meaning of an HTTP status code on the command line.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-s SEARCH, --search=SEARCH
Search for a code by name or description. Search text may contain regular expressions.

USAGE

Lists all available HTTP status codes and their description:

hc

Explain 405 status code:

hc 405

Search code(s) by description (case-insensitive):

hc -s too

Filter codes with a regex

hc 30[12]

Use an 'x' for any digit

hc 1xx

AUTHOR

httpcode was written by Ruslan Spivak <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Khalid El Fathi <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).