Throwing a custom 503 exception in CakePHP 2

Question

I need to give a 503 Service Unavailable HTTP header.

Normally I use these for 404 and 500 codes

throw new NotFoundException();
         


        

Answer 1

http://api22.cakephp.org/class/cake-response#method-CakeResponsestatusCode

Will allow you to set a status code.