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HTP-017 · Client errors (4xx)

421 Misdirected Request

Right door, wrong house: this connection does not serve that domain.

HTTP/2 reuses connections across domains that share a certificate and an address. Sometimes the request lands on a server that answers the IP but is not authoritative for that Host — and 421 warns: retry over another connection.

It was born with HTTP/2, in RFC 7540, and was promoted to general HTTP in RFC 9110. Clients handle it on their own — they reopen the connection and repeat the request — so users never see it: a backstage code, from the era when one connection serves many houses.

HTTP/1.1 421 Misdirected Request
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Not the asker's mistake: a connection lent out too widely.