202 Accepted
Queued for later. Nothing is done yet — pair it with a way to check progress.
202Success
- What it means
- Queued for later. Nothing is done yet — pair it with a way to check progress.
- In practice
- 202 is a promise, not a result: the server has taken the work and will do it eventually. An API returning 202 should also return something the client can poll — a job URL or an id — because “accepted” with no way to check is indistinguishable from “lost”. If you are seeing unexpected 202s from an API, look for an async mode you did not know you had enabled.
- Whose problem is it?
- Nobody. It worked.
Often confused with