diff --git a/ffserver.c b/ffserver.c
index e48af709a97e47ea3c02bb28301d1855445df1b6..3559968458e467fbefcd45d916ddcdf6ed750f33 100644
--- a/ffserver.c
+++ b/ffserver.c
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ static void http_send_too_busy_reply(int fd)
{
char buffer[300];
int len = snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer),
- "HTTP/1.0 200 Server too busy\r\n"
+ "HTTP/1.0 503 Server too busy\r\n"
"Content-type: text/html\r\n"
"\r\n"
"<html><head><title>Too busy</title></head><body>\r\n"