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RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012)

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Needs something like 708 - Single dev that knew how this house of cards worked is dead.

Are you sure that 780 - Project owner not responding?

    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh) Chrome/Pentagram Safari/537.36 Ouija-Board
    Accept: text/html seance/* sound/breathy-whisper

«Relied On A Cloud Provider For Redundance» is missing. Typically misclassified as 503, but really belongs in 77x

That's not my (the developer's) fault. 787. Talk to the bean counters.

You could have hosted it on your work laptop and you know it.

They gave me an abacus. 787.

754.0000000000001 Binary floating point used

Do we have something like:

auto returncode = isApprox(754);

Really enjoyed "718 - I am not a teapot", a clever nod to "418 - I'm a teapot":

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

This is wasteful trash and has no place in a standard.

Good thing it's not in the HTTP standard but in a joke standard then.

You realize that 418 really means, "I am not a coffee maker", right?

79x needs something akin to "Global nuclear fallout; internet failed to live up to design requirements"

Also needs a reference to the AI Singularity ~ i.e. Skynet and the Robot Apocalypse.

Isn't that just a special case of 794?

001

That's covered under 799 I think

yes. if we need to distinguish further, then set the response header X-Apocalypse-Reason

Big fan of “786 - Try it now”

That one's excellent, perhaps followed closely by "794 - Someone let PG near a REPL"

Big fan of "this is the last page of the Internet; go back".

Maybe 799 - “why is this so important to you anyway”

Bug report: "733 - Fucking Deadlocks" shouldn't be there? What kind of fake BS deadlock would let the server send back a status code?

read it as a verb instead

And that’s how you get a bat virus folks.

Sounds like "911 - Immediate Medical Attention Required"

would still be too busy

747: Server in Airplane Mode.

See also: 757, 767, 777, 787, 797

Server crashed (737-Max)

Missing an entry about "Missed the Balmer peak by that much"

“PC Load Letter” is not on the list. Hope it is added.

I think 759 is somewhat related.

Past threads:

RFC for 7xx HTTP status - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577434 - July 2018 (11 comments)

RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status Codes – Developer Errors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467470 - Oct 2015 (2 comments)

RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes - Developer Errors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442957 - March 2013 (2 comments)

HTTP 7xx: developer errors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497866 - Jan 2012 (7 comments)

There has to be legitimate uses for the "724 - Unreachable" code.

735 and 775 are pretty useful too. They clearly communicate why a page wasn't available and what the user can do about it (get a proper browser, and fuck-all, respectively).

787 should be Plane Crash

It could also be "IT didn't turn it off and on again" in reference to https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...

That what be 737 Redundancy is overrated

737 workaround introduced new bug

Unfortunately these have not (as yet) been added to http.cat

777 - "Idiot dev that wrote this thought that pure belief would keep the steam shovel rolling"

700 + i: It's complicated

The status code of the imagination.

“Imagine that this returned successfully “

200i

200i + 200j - some real/some imaginary, use caution

This might actually be useful!

737 - FuckThreadsing

Pretty clever :-)

Isn't 759 just a special case of 754?

Not quite -- 754 is "unexpected ;", while 759 is "unexpected ::".

(semicolon vs colons)

Propose "769: Burning Man"

777 - Jackpot

762 - Stoned.

Should be HTTP 420. Except that'd be a client error.

I mean... that makes more sense

Twitter used to return that for rate limiting (with a status message of "Enhance Your Calm") before 429 became standard.

700 - Hello world

Well _I_ liked it.

This is super cringe.

Hey, it's HN, if you're not up for super cringe perhaps you shouldn't be here? Or maybe you mean there should be a 7xx code for "This is super cringe"?

778 - not everyone approves

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