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Async & Long-Running

Headers for work that does not finish inside the request: preference for async handling, polling locations, progress, retry timing.

5 headers, ordered by how many providers in the catalog declare them.

Prefer 29 providers regulated 2 spellings

How a client asks for async handling. Mandated in the FHIR bulk-data flows that the CMS interoperability rules require.

Content-Location 11 providers regulated 2 spellings

The Content-Location HTTP header — async & long-running, RFC 9110, declared by 11 providers in the API Evangelist catalog.

Last-Event-ID 7 providers

The Last-Event-ID HTTP header — async & long-running, declared by 7 providers in the API Evangelist catalog.

Preference-Applied 3 providers

The Preference-Applied HTTP header — async & long-running, RFC 7240, declared by 3 providers in the API Evangelist catalog.

Status-URI 1 providers

The Status-URI HTTP header — async & long-running, RFC 2518, declared by 1 providers in the API Evangelist catalog.