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NPM Fails Worldwide With "ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot" Error

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

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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:07PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:07PM (#686238)

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:12PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:12PM (#686240)

      Note that the 418 message is actually defined in an RFC: [ietf.org]

      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.

      Note, however, the date of the RFC.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday May 30 2018, @04:57PM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @04:57PM (#686343) Journal

        The resulting entity body MAY be short and
              stout.

        Also may be in orbit around the sun be between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, obvious reference to Russell's teapot, and dubious ontologies in computer systems.

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:16PM (2 children)

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:16PM (#686243) Journal

      • 420 Wait, what was that URL again?

      FTFY.

      • (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.

        • (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.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by fritsd on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:33PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:33PM (#686399) Journal

    451 We burned your access to this resource, you dissident you! [ietf.org]

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Wednesday May 30 2018, @07:22PM

    by turgid (4318) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @07:22PM (#686426) Journal

    There was one episode of The Goodies, I think the one where they got bricked into a building for years, where Tim Brooke-Taylor adopts a teapot pose and exclaims, "I'm a teapot! I'm a teapot!" on discovering their predicament.

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