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HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot

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112 pointsmtarnovan33 comments

I saw that a few weeks ago (actually went looking for something good to use) and have been returning it to botnets ever since.

  print "Status: 418 I'm a teapot

Some day, when your fridge, oven, and yes, teapot all have IP addresses, this will finally come into its own.

as long as they use IPv6.

They won't need to, there's plenty of space in the private range in IPv4 to put everything in my house on the net. IPv6 isn't going to make firewalls and private networks go away, people aren't going to just put everything directly on the Internet with a public IP just because they can just as no one gives every PC on their network now live IP's.

I would not risk depleting my home network address pool either. What if I want to connect 4 billion + 1 washing machines?

I thought that nobody gives every pc on their network live IPs because we're out of IPs?

Why wouldn't you give everything its own unique IP and then limit access via firewalls? NAT just makes p2p a huge pain.

I think that he means that he is putting everything on the private IP range: 192.168.* .* .

Which means you'll have to use NAT to control your teapot from the office.

Are you brave enough to put your tea-making facilities in the DMZ? That's laying it on the line, man. Personally I think I would reverse proxy my teapot through nginx, I don't trust a TCP/IP stack embedded in a kitchen appliance.

I would like to take this opportunity to direct your attention towards the venerable http://nicecupofteaandasitdown.com which is both splendid and written by a hacker. I think you can tell when you get to the page with the venn diagram of biscuits.

The TCP/IP stack in that NetBSD toaster is >= as secure as your laptop/desktop.

The hypothetical Hot Beverages As A Service device that exists only in my head doesn't use NetBSD, it uses a custom standalone stack running on a PIC/AVR. So there.

It will require a new version since coffee pots have evolved since 1998.

Some toasters already have IP addresses.

http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php

NetBSD really does run on everything.

Does anyone have any idea where in the HTTP headers we would store whether the teapot was Short and/or Stout?

Since we're talking about the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol here, physical attributes of the teapot are irrelevant and thus outside of the scope of the RFC.

The RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt) specifically states:

    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.

Because I'm apparently spending much of my day responding to HN stories, and because I wanted to see what happens when a page actually returns a 418 code:

http://nokiaplanx.com/?teapot=1

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.

Great, it's been a few weeks since I saw this on reddit, digg, and a million other places!

We actually do have a coffee-related server that we've open sourced at Etsy: https://github.com/morria/CoffeeD/

I currently have an open (internal to Etsy) bug on the author on making it RFC 2324 compliant.

Reminds me of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot (the first webcam on the internet)

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Trojan_Room_c...

Nice. Now can someone explain the $11 format in the ID3V2 tag?

http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0#head-70a65d30522ef0d37642224c2a...

I think it's just a red herring.

The bright coloured fish, is a red herring.

This one goes to 11.

Sounds like a good MAKE Magazine project: DIY web server in a teapot, with ironic status code. Extra points if you build it in Utah.

Oh dear... Might have to build this now hmm? I'm not sure it counts if it's got a arduino in it and a cat 5 sticking out the back. The water is also an issue.

Can we please find the Science to power a web server with tea?

We all know that Infinite Improbability Drives are powered by cups of tea, not web servers. Duh.

direct link (yes, we can use any id element as anchor target):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#418

I think this should be reused for something related to WebGL ;p

Is implementing status 418 a requirement for teapot atheists?

Note to self: Hack my Mr. Coffee to support an IP stack, and implement RFC-2324. Maybe a good chance to do some Arduino hacking?

Anyone have a patch for nginx?

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