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HTTP status code 418 (I'm a teapot)

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16 pointsdutchbrit3 comments

I wasn't aware of the RFC7168 and the other extensions, to allow for brewing scenarios... And I'm quite tempted to use the protocol as proposed, with a networked Arduino, to automate my own coffee machine.

    alias meeting
    `BREW ACCEPT-ADDITIONS: Whisky`

Ugh, unreadable - all the implementation images listed in the article are of teapots, even though being a teapot is defined as an error scenario.

Actually the error results from asking a teapot to brew coffe, in which case it will reply "I am a teapot" and some servers provide the image of the teapot to make it easier, if you like a text only error page, here it is:

http://www.kurgan.org/

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