404 should have been the cat footprints in the concrete but without the cat.
HTTP Cats
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#22I unironically use this website everytime I forget a status code at work. The name is instantly memorable, it loads immediately, and I can ctrl-f it. It's basically muscle memory at this point.
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#23I used similar idea in an app a while back:
https://github.com/tantalor/emend/blob/master/app/static/ima...
Still gives me a chuckle
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#24Do any browsers recognize a 420 response code?
Your browser (if you're using one of the "usual ones") doesn't really do much with the response's status code if it doesn't match a few specific ones for redirecting/caching/protocol shenanigans. Anything in the 4XX range is going to be treated as just a regular ol' response, just like 404. (You could serve an entire site with all responses set to status=404, and be fine... other than probably never getting any cache…
Once upon a time, Internet Explorer used to substitute its own error pages if the body of the error response was too short for its liking. Those depended on whcih error code it got. (I expect nobody has used an old enough IE to see those pages for at least a decade.)
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#25This is hilarious
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#26Do any browsers recognize a 420 response code?
Your browser (if you're using one of the "usual ones") doesn't really do much with the response's status code if it doesn't match a few specific ones for redirecting/caching/protocol shenanigans. Anything in the 4XX range is going to be treated as just a regular ol' response, just like 404. (You could serve an entire site with all responses set to status=404, and be fine... other than probably never getting any cache…
I've seen sites that use unexpected HTTP response codes, I think to try to defeat bots. The front page would return a 503 Service Unavailable, but the body was just normal content that would load a bot detection script and then redirect you to the actual content.
I successfully wrote a bot that would bypass it all, but it was weird, and became a slight challenge since I couldn't rely on response codes to determine if I succeeded. When I solved the challenge, it would return a 400 Bad Request while serving me the content I was looking for.
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#27I'm partial to http.dog
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#28Why is the quality of the pictures so low?
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#29Why is the quality of the pictures so low?
Because this website has been around for a long time and pictures didn't used to be so big
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#30Came for 418. Left happy for Caturday.
(Every web site I've built in the last ten years has a series of conditions that combined will trigger a 418.)