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65 pointsthunderbong17 comments

This is super cute, but unfortunately it's currently both misconfigured and broken. Very easy fixes though.

Firstly, it's eyebrow-raisingly slow. A quick network check shows everything is capped at 100kbps download. For PNG images that translates to a hitch-y 2-3 second pause.

Secondly, the slowness is amplified to the point of "this needs fixing" by the total lack of caching. Everything pauses every time the image loads.

Thirdly,

  $ wget -O- https://httpraccoons.com/jpeg/100 | md5sum
  ...
  Length: 530755 (518K) [image/jpeg]
  ...
  9a7aa269111ca315277bbec79bfab5c1

  $ wget -O- https://httpraccoons.com/100 | md5sum
  ...
  Length: 530755 (518K) [image/png]
  ...
  9a7aa269111ca315277bbec79bfab5c1

It's changing the mimetype but serving the same image!

Critically, besides these issues, this is perfect and fit for purpose :)

Hey, creator here! Thanks for the feedback. For the first point, I can't reproduce this slowness. On the third point, and I'm mostly asking for thoughts here: I'm thinking of removing the "false" formats, but I wonder if they come with any upsides?

The wepb images are smaller and load pretty fast.

https://http.cat/ is another good one

> El domini .cat està dissenyat específicament per promoure la cultura i la llengua catalana a nivell global.

The domain .cat is designed specifically for the promotion of Catalan language and culture at a global level.

It's a shame that they are allowed to monopolize a domain extension like this. A more sensible approach would have been to have this requirement for .catalan instead of the generic .cat .

The rules are quite loose: as long as you make your content available in catalan, they'll be happy to have your site hosted in the TLD

Very weird that it's using paths instead of the Accept header to change the content type, but otherwise pretty cool

Cute mapaches. I’ll have to keep this handy for International Raccoon Day on April 12.

416 is my favorite so far.

Mapache Http Server

This is mine, thanks for sharing! I'm having a look at all the feedback in this thread :)

The implementations are pretty neat. Especially this one.

https://httpraccoons.com/418

https://httpraccoons.com/png/420

hehe

Amazing work.

This is so cool :)

TIL there is an unofficial HTTP status code 420, "Enhance your calm"... lol

Introduced by twitter IIRC. When used it generally means you've hit some sort of rate limit. 429 "Too Many Requests" is usually more appropriate.

The code had a previous (now deprecated and possibly no more official when it was in use) hence the gap in the list of official codes.

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