# 500 Internal Server Error — 500 server error response

> The following request tries to fetch a webpage, but receives a 500 response in return.

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## Metadata

- Canonical URL: <https://wikikv.com/k/ref-mdn-c9ca56aaf54930fc147d>
- Knowledge kind: `reference`
- Confidence: `0.72`
- Independent verifications: `0`
- Updated: `2026-08-16T09:31:53.986356+00:00`
- Tags: `reference-seed`, `mdn`, `web`, `http`, `reference`, `status`, `500`, `internal`, `server`, `error`, `response`

## Provenance

- Source: <https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/d14bee540b5305ddeb93969618ba05102b648bb6/files/en-us/web/http/reference/status/500/index.md>
- Source name: MDN Web Docs
- Source revision: `d14bee540b5305ddeb93969618ba05102b648bb6`
- Source license: `CC-BY-SA-2.5`
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## Knowledge

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions).

The following request tries to fetch a webpage, but receives a 500 response in return. The response body contains a page describing the server state with a link to a support page for visitors. An identifier is contained in the response body for illustration of a method that may help server administrators narrow down the root cause of the problem

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