Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol: Difference between revisions
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*<code>PROPFIND</code>: Finds out metadata about the coffee. |
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*<code>WHEN</code>: Says "when", causing the HTCPCP server to stop pouring [[milk]] into the coffee (if applicable). |
*<code>WHEN</code>: Says "when", causing the HTCPCP server to stop pouring [[milk]] into the coffee (if applicable). |
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For more detailed specifications, see the HTCPCP RFC. |
For more detailed specifications, see the HTCPCP RFC ([http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt RFC 2324]). |
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Revision as of 07:49, 18 March 2007
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, published 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. The powerful editor Emacs actually includes a fully functional implementation of it, and a number of patches exist to extend Mozilla in this direction.
HTCPCP is an extension of HTTP. HTCPCP requests are identified with the URI scheme coffee:
(or the same word in any other of the 29 listed languages) 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 (RFC 2324).