[Zope] RESPONSE.setStatus(), what does that do?

Peter Bengtsson mail@peterbe.com
Mon, 03 Feb 2003 01:08:27 +0000 

I noticed in Dieter Mauer's Chapter 3 book this DTML::

  ...
  <dtml-except>
  <dtml-call "RESPONSE.setStatus(error_type)">
  ...

What does that setStatus actually do? Or, what does it help?