Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

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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 or POST: 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.

External links

RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

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