Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

Published on June 12, 2021

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Did you know Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol existed?

It was part of April Fools Day RFC for 1998 šŸ˜„ . . The interesting part is that the current HTTP protocol borrowed a page from them

STATUS CODE: 418 - Iā€™m a teapot

Server refuses to brew coffee because it is a teapot

Some websites use this response for requests they do not wish to handle, such as automated queries.

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

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