Filling out 202 Accepted

The 202 Accepted status code has come up from time to time, with people liking the idea behind it, but needing a bit more.

<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-15#section-8.2.3>

I'm wondering if we can clarify things a little bit by adding two bits of text:

--8<---
A 202 response MAY carry a Retry-After header field that indicates an estimation of when the processing might be complete.

It MAY also carry a Location header that indicates the URI of a resource that will be created once processing has completed.
--->8---

Thoughts?

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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/

Received on Thursday, 11 August 2011 04:40:34 UTC