---
set: 2
code: 202
title: Accepted
references:
    "Rails HTTP Status Symbol": ":accepted"
---

The 202 Accepted status code indicates that the request has been accepted for
processing, but the processing has not been completed. The request might or
might not eventually be acted upon, as it might be disallowed when processing
actually takes place.

There is no facility in HTTP for re-sending a status code
from an asynchronous operation.

The 202 response is intentionally noncommittal. Its purpose is to allow a server
to accept a request for some other process (perhaps a batch-oriented process
that is only run once per day) without requiring that the user agent's
connection to the server persist until the process is completed. The
representation sent with this response ought to describe the request's current
status and point to (or embed) a status monitor that can provide the user with
an estimate of when the request will be fulfilled.

Source: [RFC7231 Section 6.3.3][1]

[1]: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.3.3>