HTTP - The internet - and Teapots?!
Here’s something really interesting I found when helping my brother make a creative blog name… so he used 505 in the name which means scheme not supported (how the internet runs)… looking down the list I saw 418 defined as “I’m a teapot”.
Below is a part of the specification for how the underlying technology of webpages work:
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RFC 2324 HTCPCP/1.0 1 April 1998
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In practice, most automated coffee pots cannot currently provide
additions.
2.3.2 418 I’m a teapot
Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error
code “418 I’m a teapot”. The resulting entity body MAY be short and
stout.
3. The “coffee” URI scheme
Because coffee is international, there are international coffee URI
schemes. All coffee URL schemes are written with URL encoding of the
UTF-8 encoding of the characters that spell the word for “coffee” in
any of 29 languages, following the conventions for
internationalization in URIs [URLI18N].
coffee-url = coffee-scheme “:” [ "//" host ]
["/" pot-designator ] ["?" additions-list ]
coffee-scheme = ( “koffie” ; Afrikaans, Dutch
| “q%C3%A6hv%C3%A6″ ; Azerbaijani
| “%D9%82%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A9″ ; Arabic
| “akeita” ; Basque
| “koffee” ; Bengali
| “kahva” ; Bosnian
| “kafe” ; Bulgarian, Czech
| “caf%C3%E8″ ; Catalan, French, Galician
| “%E5%92%96%E5%95%A1″ ; Chinese
| “kava” ; Croatian
| “k%C3%A1va ; Czech
| “kaffe” ; Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
| “coffee” ; English
| “kafo” ; Esperanto
| “kohv” ; Estonian
| “kahvi” ; Finnish
| “%4Baffee” ; German
| “%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AD” ; Greek
| “%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80″ ; Hindi
| “%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%92%E3%83%BC” ; Japanese
| “%EC%BB%A4%ED%94%BC” ; Korean
| “%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5″ ; Russian
| “%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%9F” ; Thai
)
pot-designator = “pot-” integer ; for machines with multiple pots
additions-list = #( addition )
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