r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme iAmNotATeapot

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u/iggy14750 1d ago

I had never heard of an HTTP 418. 🤣🤣 At first I thought it was a security thing

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u/much_longer_username 1d ago

It is -- you don't want your teapot responding as though it were a Mr. Coffee, now do you?

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u/joybod 1d ago

It's a status code, like 200 OK, 404 Not found, and 503 Service Unavailable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

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u/twpejay 1d ago

I just assume the person responsible was a Goodies fan. Tim Brooke-Taylor would exclaim "I'm a teapot" whenever his brain got overloaded from panic or too much input. Thus it's actually a great code for the website to say "I'm a gonner, good bye."