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Re: HTTP Cats

#91

Post by danielodievich » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

rogeriopvl wrote: post #63

http.cat author here. A shout out to Tomomi Imura, because HTTP Status Cats was her idea and I just made the images available through an API. It's crazy to think that since 2010 this still pops up on the HN front page from time to time. Thank you for that! http.cat is a testament of how simple, fun and silly the internet was back then. I'll try to keep it online for as long as I can. I love reading the stories you al…

It is my favorite http resource. I pull it up during troubleshooting conference calls for inevitable lightening of mood. +1000 karma to you

Re: HTTP Cats

#92

Post by joebig » Sun, Feb 01, 2026, 9:55 AM UTC

Cat, n.

    A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Re: HTTP Cats

#93

Post by noughtnaut » Mon, Feb 02, 2026, 3:12 PM UTC

flexagoon wrote: post #69

silverwind wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes is a bit more practical

Yes, but opening that and searching for "411" is much slower than just typing "http.cat/411" into the URL bar

...which is when you set up a browser bookmark with a keyword, so you can just type "http 411" and it will redirect you! :-)

Eg.: "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/..." would then go to: "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/..."

Re: HTTP Cats

#94

Post by athom » Wed, Feb 04, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

In three decades of surfing the web, I've never encountered more than a couple of those error messages. This set of pictures makes me wish I'd run into them more often.