Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 15 2017, @12:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the here-is-my-handle dept.

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

The august and serious folk at the IETF have always had a soft spot for their April Fool's jokes, and so do others – so much that a proposal to deprecate a joke has met with successful resistance.

From what feels like the Internet Dark Ages of the 1990s, was the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, a joking anticipation of the Internet of Things, which gave the world HTTP Error 418:

2.3.2 418 I'm a teapot

Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/14/error_418_im_a_teapot_preserved/


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @01:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @01:04AM (#553977)

    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Referrer-Policy: no-referrer
    Content-Length: 1564
    Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 01:04:18 GMT

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   +1  
       Funny=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Funny' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   1