202

Accepted

Success

RFC 7231

The request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed.

Detailed Information

The 202 status code indicates that the request has been accepted for processing, but the processing has not been completed. The request might or might not be eventually acted upon, and may be disallowed when processing occurs.

Common Examples

Asynchronous processing
Background tasks
Queued requests

Common Uses

Background processing tasks
Queued requests
Long-running operations

Best Practices

Provide feedback on request status
Include Location header for resource if applicable
Use appropriate response body structure

Quick Actions

Category Information

Success

The action was successfully received, understood, and accepted

Related Status Codes

3 similar

200

OK

The request has succeeded.

201

Created

The request has been fulfilled and resulted in a new resource being created.

203

Non-Authoritative Information

The server is a transforming proxy (e.g. a Web accelerator) that received a 200 OK response to satisfy a previous request.

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