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[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt?number=2324 Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol] |
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Revision as of 16:51, 19 March 2005
The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP for short) is a protocol for controlling, monitoring and diagnosing coffee pots.
HTCPCP is specified in the jocular RFC #2324, written on April 1 1998. Although the RFC describing the protocol is an April fools joke and not to be taken seriously, it specifies the protocol itself accurately enough for it to be a real, non-fictional protocol. No known implementations of it exist, though.
HTCPCP is an extension of HTTP. HTCPCP requests are identified with the URI scheme coffee:
and contain several additions to the HTTP methods:
BREW
orPOST
: Causes the HTCPCP server to brew coffee.GET
: Retrieves coffee from the HTCPCP server.PROPFIND
: Finds out metadata about the coffee.WHEN
: Says "when", causing the HTCPCP server to stop pouring milk into the coffee (if applicable).
For more detailed specifications, see the HTCPCP RFC.