HTTP 100 — Continue

The server has received the request headers and the client should proceed to send the request body

When to use it

Use status 100 when this is the correct HTTP response semantic: The server has received the request headers and the client should proceed to send the request body

Request and response example

POST /uploads HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com
Expect: 100-continue

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

Related status codes

101, 102, 103

References

MDN · RFC 9110