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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/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:30AM (#554167)

    I still prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFC_1149 [wikipedia.org] (ipoac)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @04:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @04:56PM (#554321)

    Technically, using a microSD card violates the RFC (it requires that blackstuff be printed on whitestuff).