HTTP 202 Accepted

What does HTTP 202 mean?

The request was accepted for processing, but processing has not finished. Use 202 for asynchronous work — video encoding, report generation, bulk imports. Return a link where the client can poll the job status, because the final result is not known yet.

2xx Success: The request was received, understood and accepted.

202 and SEO

Not relevant for web pages.

Example response

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted

How to return a 202 response

Node.js (Express)

res.status(202).json({ error: 'Accepted' });

PHP

http_response_code(202);

Python (Flask)

return {'error': 'Accepted'}, 202

Go (net/http)

w.WriteHeader(202)

nginx

return 202;

Related status codes

• 200 OK — The request succeeded and the response body contains the requested resource.
• 201 Created — The request succeeded and a new resource was created.
• 303 See Other — The client should fetch a different URL with GET.

Check which status code a URL returns with the HTTP header checker.