# ElasticsearchStatusException\[Unable to parse response body\]; nested: ResponseException\[method \[POST\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearchstatusexception-unable-to-parse-response-body-nested-responseexception-method-post/276321>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 17, 2021, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearchstatusexception-unable-to-parse-response-body-nested-responseexception-method-post/276321 "2021-06-17T23:09:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearchstatusexception-unable-to-parse-response-body-nested-responseexception-method-post/276321/2 "2021-06-18T06:03:23Z")

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It strongly suspect that you aren't actually hitting an Elasticsearch node. This response:

```auto
HTTP/1.0 302 Found

```

probably isn't coming from ES itself.

> `host [http://es.com]`

Are you really targeting `es.com` ? That doesn't sounds right.

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