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The '''Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol''' ('''HTCPCP''' for short) is a [[protocol (computing)|protocol]] for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing [[coffee]] pots. |
The '''Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol''' ('''HTCPCP''' for short) is a [[protocol (computing)|protocol]] for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing [[coffee]] pots. |
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Revision as of 22:00, 15 December 2006
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:
BREWorPOST: 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.