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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the short-and-stout dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3941

Users of the NPMJavaScript package manager were greeted by a weird error yesterday evening, as their consoles and applications spewed a message of "ERR! 418 I'm a teapot" whenever they tried to update or install a new JavaScript/Node.js package.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/npm-fails-worldwide-with-err-418-im-a-teapot-error/


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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:04PM (1 child)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:04PM (#686347)

    I believe 420 is already defined as a "real" status code, that being "Enhance you calm". Generally used to tell callers to back off on their call load, or similar.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:14PM (#686354)

    421 is real, [httpstatuses.com] 420 was (is?) used by the Twitter API when a client is rate limited.