At most early projects and cool clients, I'll throw together some goofy custom status pages for internal and sometimes public-facing websites and portals. BSOD, Chuck Norris quote generators, web games like Tetris, and so on.
HTTP Status Dogs (2011)
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Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)
#32One surprisingly practical use I found for things like this; when internal tools throw up a 404 or a 503 with the usual default status page, people assume "oh it's not working, I'll try again later". When they get an unexpected cat (or dog, in this case) they tend to go and ask their tech team, "what's with the cat?" It's not a substitute for good logging and alerting in any way, and is totally unsuitable for environ…
Cool > professional. "Professional" is boring. ;)
Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
the dogs have no legs similarly 422
226 and 304 are, while funny, also a bit over the top IMO. It would be nice to have a "SFW" version of this page.
I'm genuinely surprised at how many people are in some way put off by the images. I wonder if there's a cultural thing about people who dislike dogs generally. These kind of comment streams are always a good reminder about how you can never anticipate other people's responses.
Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)
#34and this is why I became a web developer.
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#37One surprisingly practical use I found for things like this; when internal tools throw up a 404 or a 503 with the usual default status page, people assume "oh it's not working, I'll try again later". When they get an unexpected cat (or dog, in this case) they tend to go and ask their tech team, "what's with the cat?" It's not a substitute for good logging and alerting in any way, and is totally unsuitable for environ…
Plus it’s gonna send a lot more data over the network. A typical 404 is just a few lines of text. But these are an entire image blob.
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Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)
#38Fabulous, inspired by https://http.cat/ of course
Dumb question, but how does this work? .cat isn't listed as a TLD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)
#39Fabulous, inspired by https://http.cat/ of course
Dumb question, but how does this work? .cat isn't listed as a TLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
.cat seems to be a non-geographic TLD focused on the Catalan-speaking community: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat
Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)
#40It’s not a dog but still my favorite 404 is
