---
title: obj.response
summary: null
url: >-
  https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/vcl/variables/cache-object/obj-response
---

**Type:** STRING  
**Access:** can be read and set, but not unset

**Available in:** hit, error

The response phrase included with the status code.

For example, in the case of a 200, the response would be `OK`.

Access within the `vcl_hit` subroutine is read-only.