202 Accepted

Got it. I'll get to it. Maybe.

What it properly means

The request has been received but not acted on yet. It is noncommittal: HTTP has no way to send the outcome later. Meant for work handled by another process, or batch jobs.

Class
2xx Successful: here you go
Defined in
RFC 9110, section 15.3.3

Get one yourself

This endpoint really answers with 202. Point your client at it and see what it does.

curl -i https://httpcodes.dev/api/202

People mix this up with

  • 201 Created202

    Done, or just queued?

    201 means the new thing exists right now. 202 means the request was accepted but the work has not happened yet, and it might still fail later.