Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

HTTP Status Dogs (2011)

httpstatusdogs.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–44 of 44 posts

Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)

#41

Post by iovoid »

geokon wrote: post #38
jjgreen wrote: post #2

Fabulous, 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...

It's listed, but under geographic TLDs[1] because it's Catalonia's TLD.

Interestingly this TLD only allows website that "to serve the needs of the Catalan Linguistic and Cultural Community on the Internet"[2] which is why http.cat also offers a Catalan version[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom... [2] https://domini.cat/en/rules-of-the-cat-domain/ [3] https://http.cat/?lang=cat

Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)

#42

Post by Sebb767 »

blowski wrote: post #33
Sebb767 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well, it really depends on the context. Take this one:

https://httpstatusdogs.com/304-not-modified

I'd surely crack that joke with close friends, but at work I would absolutely not risk that, especially if I don't know whether the receiving party has a similar humor. Compare that with http.cat:

https://http.cat/304

It's a cute picture of cats. It might get an eyeroll, yes, but nobody is going to accuse me of an inappropriate joke for that. 226 is even worse and I know quite a few female colleagues which would probably not take it well, irrespective of it being a picture of a dog.

Re: HTTP Status Dogs (2011)

#44

Post by tweetle_beetle »

wongarsu wrote: post #8
jjgreen wrote: post #2

Fabulous, inspired by https://http.cat/ of course

http.cat is surprisingly useful because of the short url. Typing in e.g. http.cat/422 beats any other method I know for quickly looking up status codes by number.

If you are using DuckDuckGo then it doesn't get much quicker than typing:

  !http 422
Post reply on HN