Can I change the page's HTML status code on the client side?

Question

I have a static HTML web page and I want to set its status code to 404 "Not found".

But, I want to do this using javascript or jQuery, not any server side language.

How can I do this on the client? With javascript or maybe a <meta> tag?

Solution 1

It is impossible to set the HTTP Response code using client side programming.

Solution 2

You can redirect the page to a non existent one in JavaScript. I have no idea why you would want to do this, but hey ho:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.location = "zomgomgthispagedoesntexistlololol.html"
//-->
</script>

But David is right, there is no way to set THAT pages status as it is a client side script.