How to specify HTTP error code?

Question

I have tried:

app.get(\'/\', function(req, res, next) {
    var e = new Error(\'error message\');
    e.status = 400;
    next(e);
});

and:

Answer 1

Old question, but still coming up on Google. In the current version of Express (3.4.0), you can alter res.statusCode before calling next(err):

res.statusCode = 404;
next(new Error('File not found'));