# Getting code 100 when trying to index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-code-100-when-trying-to-index/7221>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 4, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-code-100-when-trying-to-index/7221 "2012-04-04T06:19:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Yehuda\_Zargarov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yehuda_zargarov/32/2164_2.png) [@Yehuda\_Zargarov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yehuda_Zargarov)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-code-100-when-trying-to-index/7221/1 "2012-04-04T06:19:14Z")

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Hi

I'm writing big data files to ES and from time to time getting HTTP  
status code 100.

I've read that it means 'continue' but what does it means in context  
of ES?

- working with ES 0.19.

Thanks,

Yehuda

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-code-100-when-trying-to-index/7221/2 "2012-04-04T15:06:34Z")

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Its part of how HTTP works (and you should try and disable it, since its  
more expensive). For large requests, curl, for example, by default will  
send the just the header and then expect to get back 100 to send the  
actually body of the request (and worse, it timesout on it, and if it does  
not get 100 back, it will send it anyhow).

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Yehuda Zargarov [yz1583@gmail.com](mailto:yz1583@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm writing big data files to ES and from time to time getting HTTP  
> status code 100.
> 
> I've read that it means 'continue' but what does it means in context  
> of ES?
> 
> - working with ES 0.19.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yehuda

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-code-100-when-trying-to-index/7221/3 "2017-07-06T03:33:38Z")

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