202 Accepted
The request was accepted for processing, but the processing has not finished.
What it means
HTTP 202 Accepted means the server received the request and will act on it, but the work is asynchronous and not yet complete. It makes no promise that the action will ultimately succeed.
When it happens
It happens with background jobs and queued work — submitting a long-running export, triggering a batch import, or any task handed off to a worker that completes later.
How to fix it
- Nothing to fix — 202 is intentional for asynchronous processing.
- Provide a status endpoint or polling URL so clients can check when the job finishes.
SEO impact
None directly. It is an API response and does not affect how pages are crawled or indexed.
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