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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Everyone give it up for the fella who ran a webserver on a teapot

[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I like returning 418 instead of 404 or 403 on the files the script kiddies are hunting for on my web servers. I'm sure it does nothing but I'd like to think I've wasted some of their time at least once.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad that error exists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it exists because of RFC2324 hyper text coffee pot control protocol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact, first webcam was a series of updating stills of an actual coffee pot so some engineers would know if there was coffee made.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Technically, all video is a series of updating stills.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

True, but most streaming media now is a bunch of stills with the changes for each individual frame between them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

True, but webcams still just deliver raw frames (or compressed frames in the case of MJPEG).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With that, plus image recognition, plus a control system, you could use rfc2324 to implement the digital control side

Though I think I'd use weight, temperature, and flow sensors for easier service implementation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

And then plug those values into a image generation service to give users a visually intuitive way to see if there's cooffe or not!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Necessity is the mother of invention

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You had one chance to use 420 and you squandered it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago

HTTP 418 is the "I'm a teapot" code

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Oh I get plenty of chances to use 420. But I think you might be missing the joke. 😁

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

420 is still avalable. Not sure what you would put there ("Server too high?") and given the controversy over 418 I think its best to leave that one blank instead of making a weed joke.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

There was an attempt by Twitter at one point to use "420 Enhance Your Calm" as a code to indicate you're being rate limited.