How to return custom response status

[Mohdlatif]

Hi there, this is my first week of learning n8n and honestly is far better than other solutions I am using.

Right now, I setup an if condition if true continue the workflow.

My goal is to setup; if the if condition is false return a 401 response status with a text, like, please enter the name of the user.

How I can return 401 with a text in n8n ?

Thanks in advance

[RicardoE105]

You can respond with a custom text, using the webhook response mode last node.

About changing the HTTP status code dynamically, that is sadly not possible. What you can do is always respond with a JSON that has two properties, code, and message. Then, the client would ignore the HTTP response status code and only use the code in the response body to determine what to do.

A community member created a future request for this feature. Make sure you go there and upvote it.

Webhook - modify response code based on criteria [GOT CREATED]

Hey, First of all, thanks for your reply. I know I can modify the response body (JSON). I would also like to change the “Response code” based on some business logic criteria. Response code can’t be changed dynamically and node always returns the value defined in the WenHook node settings (for example 200) [image]

[Mohdlatif]

Thank you so much for the quick reply and help. I will surely upvote it.

Thanks again