Re: HTTP status code for transaction incomplete???

Consider 202 Accepted:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.2.3

Alek


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing a Web Service that usually completes a transaction but
> sometimes is unable to complete a transaction and will return a
> pending result.
>
> There does not seem to be a HTTP code for this which seems rather odd.
>
> This does not seem like a 200 code to me because the transaction has
> not completed yet. It certainly does not seem like a 400 though
> because the transaction might well succeed without any additional
> effort.
>
> So it seems like a 300 code but none of the existing ones seems to fit.
>
> Ideas?
>
>