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HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

#1

Post by evo_9 » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot
developer.mozilla.org

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

#2

Post by midwestemo » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 4:46 PM UTC

Google's 418 error page: https://www.google.com/teapot

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

#3

Post by samschooler » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 4:47 PM UTC

Some previous discussions on this status specifically: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=418

Some fun ones:

- Discussion on the status itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24206899

- NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17175960

- Reserve the 418 status code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004907

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

#4

Post by daveslash » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

For those who may not know, this comes from RFC 2324: ""Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0), The RFC was published 1 April 1998 (April Fool's Day). There's a long history of humorous RFCs published on 1 April. For example, RFC 1149 "IP over Avian Carriers" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

List of Additional April Fool's RFCs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

#5

Post by jonwinstanley » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 4:53 PM UTC

Nice to see more members of the community discovering a classic. Also... I am so old I've seen this on the homepage multiple times :-(

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

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Post by artembugara » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

I've heard it's been used a lot by the MOVA developers

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

#7

Post by duxup » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 4:54 PM UTC

I return 418 in some cases where somehow someone ended up somewhere in the code that I otherwise thought impossible. It works pretty well as far as letting folks know that something particularly unusual has happened / this isn't your ordinary error.

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

#8

Post by coding123 » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

I can't remember but didn't some company try to implement this for an actual connected tea pot?

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

#9

Post by _jal » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #7

I return 418 in some cases where somehow someone ended up somewhere in the code that I otherwise thought impossible. It works pretty well as far as letting folks know that something particularly unusual has happened / this isn't your ordinary error.

A less humorous unusual status code is 451. Unfortunately, it probably should be used more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451

Re: HTTP Status 418 – I'm a teapot

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Post by kzrdude » Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

It's quaint, it's a joke about IoT devices before they were everywhere. I'm currently disappointed that the office has "upgraded" coffee machines and the new one has a permanent internet connection and shows ads/branding (for coffee) when it is idle.