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==Notable instances of 418==
Google introduced an easter egg, bearing a joke on Error 418 on its webpage [http://www.google.ca/teapot www.google.ca/teapot]. Visiting this page will cause Google to display a clickable teapot with the 418 Teapot error.


==Save 418 movement==
==Save 418 movement==

Revision as of 01:55, 17 March 2020

Implementation of HTCPCP at error418.net
Working teapot implementing HTCPCP-TEA[1]

The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP) is a facetious communication protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots. It is specified in RFC 2324, published on 1 April 1998 as an April Fools' Day RFC,[2] as part of an April Fools prank.[3] An extension, HTCPCP-TEA, was published as RFC 7168 on 1 April 2014[4] to support brewing teas, which is also an April Fools' Day RFC.

Protocol

RFC 2324 was written by Larry Masinter, who describes it as a satire, saying "This has a serious purpose – it identifies many of the ways in which HTTP has been extended inappropriately."[5] The wording of the protocol made it clear that it was not entirely serious; for example, it notes that "there is a strong, dark, rich requirement for a protocol designed espressoly [sic] for the brewing of coffee".

Despite the joking nature of its origins, or perhaps because of it, the protocol has remained as a minor presence online. The editor Emacs includes a fully functional client side implementation of it,[6] and a number of bug reports exist complaining about Mozilla's lack of support for the protocol.[7] Ten years after the publication of HTCPCP, the Web-Controlled Coffee Consortium (WC3) published a first draft of "HTCPCP Vocabulary in RDF"[8] in parody of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) "HTTP Vocabulary in RDF".[9]

On April 1, 2014, RFC 7168 extended HTCPCP to fully handle teapots.[4]

Commands and replies

HTCPCP is an extension of HTTP. HTCPCP requests are identified with the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme coffee (or the corresponding word in any other of the 29 listed languages) and contain several additions to the HTTP methods:

BREW or POST Causes the HTCPCP server to brew coffee. Using POST for this purpose is deprecated. A new HTTP request header field "Accept-Additions" is proposed, supporting optional additions including Cream, Whole-milk, Vanilla, Raspberry, Whisky, Aquavit, etc.
GET "Retrieves" coffee from the HTCPCP server.
PROPFIND Returns metadata about the coffee.
WHEN Says "when", causing the HTCPCP server to stop pouring milk into the coffee (if applicable).

It also defines two error responses:

406 Not Acceptable The HTCPCP server is unable to provide the requested addition for some reason; the response should indicate a list of available additions. The RFC observes that "In practice, most automated coffee pots cannot currently provide additions."
418 I'm a teapot The HTCPCP server is a teapot; the resulting entity body "may be short and stout" (a reference to the song "I'm a Little Teapot"). Demonstrations of this behaviour exist.[1][10]

Notable instances of 418

Google introduced an easter egg, bearing a joke on Error 418 on its webpage www.google.ca/teapot. Visiting this page will cause Google to display a clickable teapot with the 418 Teapot error.

Save 418 movement

On 5 August 2017, Mark Nottingham, chairman of the IETF HTTPBIS Working Group, called for the removal of status code 418 "I'm a teapot" from the Node.js platform, a code implemented in reference to the original 418 "I'm a teapot" established in Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol.[11] On 6 August 2017, Nottingham requested that references to 418 "I'm a teapot" be removed from the programming language Go[12] and subsequently from Python's Requests[13] and ASP.NET's HttpAbstractions library[14] as well.

In response, 15 year old developer Shane Brunswick created a website, save418.com,[15] and established the "Save 418 Movement", asserting that references to 418 "I'm a teapot" in different projects serve as "a reminder that the underlying processes of computers are still made by humans". Brunswick's site went viral in the hours following its publishing, garnering thousands of upvotes on the social platform Reddit,[16] and causing the mass adoption of the "#save418" Twitter hashtag he introduced on his site. Heeding the public outcry, Node.js, Go, Python's Requests, and ASP.NET's HttpAbstractions library decided against removing 418 "I'm a teapot" from their respective projects. The unanimous support from the aforementioned projects and the general public prompted Nottingham to begin the process of having 418 marked as a reserved HTTP status code,[17] ensuring that 418 will not be replaced by an official status code for the foreseeable future.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coffee pots.

References

  1. ^ a b Reddington, Joseph, Illustrated implementation of Error 418, archived from the original on 2015-09-06, retrieved 2014-10-18
  2. ^ "Request for Comments 2324", Network Working Group, IETF
  3. ^ DeNardis, Laura (30 September 2009). Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance. MIT Press. pp. 27ff. ISBN 978-0-262-04257-4. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Request for Comments 7168", The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA), IETF
  5. ^ Larry Masinter. "IETF RFCs". Archived from the original on 2013-03-27.
  6. ^ "Emacs extension: coffee.el", Emarsden, Chez.
  7. ^ "Bug 46647 – (coffeehandler) HTCPCP not supported (RFC2324)", Bugzilla, Mozilla
  8. ^ HTCPCP Vocabulary in RDF – WC3 RFC Draft, Chief Arabica (Web-Controlled Coffee Consortium), 1 April 2008, retrieved 27 April 2017
  9. ^ Koch, Johannes (ed.), HTTP Vocabulary in RDF, et al, W3, retrieved 17 August 2009
  10. ^ "A Goblin Teasmade teamaker with an implementation of Error 418". Archived from the original on 2014-12-06. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  11. ^ Mark Nottingham. "418 I'm A Teapot #14644".
  12. ^ Mark Nottingham. "net/http: remove support for status code 418 I'm a Teapot".
  13. ^ Mark Nottingham. "418 418 I'm a Teapot #4238".
  14. ^ Mark Nottingham. "418 I'm a Teapot #915".
  15. ^ Shane Brunswick. "The Save 418 Movement – We are the teapots".
  16. ^ "HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node. We've gotta do something. [x-post /r/webdev]".
  17. ^ Mark Nottingham. "Reserving 418".

External links

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