What is HTTP 202 Accepted?
The 202 Accepted status code indicates that the server has accepted a request for processing, but the work has not finished yet.
Unlike 200 OK, the response does not mean the operation completed successfully, only that it has been accepted.
Common Uses
The 202 Accepted response is commonly used for long-running operations.
- Background jobs
- File processing
- Report generation
- Deployment workflows
Example
POST /deploy HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
{
"job_id": "abc123",
"status": "processing"
}Why Does It Matter For DevOps?
Modern infrastructure relies heavily on asynchronous processing.
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud provisioning
- Container deployments
- Queue workers
Summary
The 202 Accepted response allows systems to acknowledge requests that will complete asynchronously.