This is lovely! A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, much interesting content on the web was only found in source, but this is another level of elegance.
Show HN: A poem inside HTTP response headers
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#12Love it! Very clever.
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#13When I come to HN, this is what I'm always hoping to see. Lots are here for startup news, FAANG, etc. Nope, I just want to see really, really cool fun things. Great work.
Thank you for the kind words! I feel the same.
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#14Very nice! By the way, I love that you explain everything, including how console commands can be run! :D
Thank you! My hope was to make it accessible to non-technical readers while still being fun for people who are familiar with HTTP innards.
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#15My older, but somewhat similar:
> docker pull elek/herbstag && docker history elek/herbstag
But it's just publishing an old (but good) poem, not as cool as writing a new one ;-)
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#17One project I have had in mind for many years is a direct two-way, user-to-user communication protocol or user convention that only uses HTTP request headers. One benefit would be easier-to-write clients and logging servers. There would be no need for the complexity of, and hence third party control over, a "web browser", nor the need to learn skills (HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.) to develop and maintain a website. Us…
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#18This is awesome! On a similar note, I added a unique poem to each of our error messages a while ago: https://readme-error-codes.herokuapp.com/
This is so fun! Thank you for sharing it.
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#19Normally one will get the default headers, plus any other added. In this case, the default headers are all gone. How did you do it?
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#20When I come to HN, this is what I'm always hoping to see. Lots are here for startup news, FAANG, etc. Nope, I just want to see really, really cool fun things. Great work.
Agreed. It really takes me back to the old days of the Internet, with fun little easter eggs like this!