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wouldn't 202 be better?
204 No Content would. 202 assumes a possibility of further processing, but /dev/null can offer none.
True, but that still mirrors the successful wrote responses in the UNIX file system, right?
/dev/null as a Service
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Re: /dev/null as a Service
#82Re: /dev/null as a Service
#83Don't be fooled by this clever marketing for a scam service! Keen IO is the true market leader in /dev/null as a service! We released in April 2013 and have been serving customers with a 100% satisfaction rating ever since. See "Keen IO releases API for /dev/null" to get the full story and perspectives from industry experts on this robust REST API. Keen IO: /dev/null for modern developers.
https://keen.io/blog/46856249197/keen-io-releases-api-for-de...
Re: /dev/null as a Service
#84The website is missing a "meet the founders" page with the pre-pubescent CEO, CTO, Director of Marketing and Director of Customer Excellent, who just happens to be the CTO's little sister.
how do you know?
Re: /dev/null as a Service
#85"85,66% guaranteed uptime (we need some sleep, too)"
lol!!!
Re: /dev/null as a Service
#86Reminds me of http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
Heh. Try buying it:
"The resource you are trying to access cannot be read, due to the following reason: No read operation available. Please try the following:
Make sure you really want to access this file. I mean, is it really that important in the big scheme of things?"
Re: /dev/null as a Service
#87Reminds me of http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
Doubtless built from a massive array of Signetics 25120 WOM chips.
Re: /dev/null as a Service
#88leet timestamp on the HTML: 27.10.2013, 13:37
Re: /dev/null as a Service
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> I do not rely on /dev/null. > I make my own null character devices as I need them. Why? Is there ever a reason to have more than one file on your system which acts as a /dev/null?
"Why?" Why not? In my case, the reason is because it's shorter to type. I would expect most longtime UNIX users have experienced what happens when, for one reason or another, /dev/null is not a null character device and you have scripts or programs writing to it as if it was. By the time you realize that this has happened, it's too late -- data has already been saved to this file. There may be various workarounds for…
And you need to be root, apparently.
Re: /dev/null as a Service
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I can't believe you guys are debating the correct HTTP return code for a joke service? Besides, it's obviously 200.
Wait... is it a joke?
I hope not, I've been depending on this service for a while. I have it integrated via FUSE on my prod servers.
We did have some problems of blocking on large files, which is less than ideal for a /dev/null service.
After dealing with their customer support (which has been super helpful), we are looking to move to a named pipe / FIFO.. Which will non-block and cache lolcally, with a watcher service to push it to their site.
Happy Customer, A+++, would recommend.