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Show HN: Never forget the meaning of HTTP response code 400

400.io

42 pointsrallison35 comments

You actually paid $60-100 for a domain name for this?

I prefer this more complete reference: http://httpstatus.es/

http://httpstatus.es/418 That's pretty great.

back from before the web was "serious business"

I do need to remember the exact number of that for the next time an interviewer asks me to name as many status codes as I can.

If someone asks you that in an interview, isn't the proper response to close your laptop, put on your hat and leave? That's what I'd expect if I asked that question.

I think 400 is the correct response in this case.

The RFC: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt

Was going to look up 501 but decided to go home.

Status cats.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/sets/7215762840946712...

$40. And yes.

Why?

Why not?

You know that money is not everything?

Of course I know that. That doesn't mean I can't be puzzled when someone walks down the street setting 2 $20 bills on fire.

That's nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qui...

Man! Whow! Thanks for the link!

Hey, some people go to the movies and order coke and popcorn, some people register funny domain names and hack up a simple site. Either way it's a few dozen bucks for a few hours of amusement.

It's amazing the things some people would rather have than money.

Slow news day, huh?

I really don't want to say "this is turning into reddit", because it isn't. Otoh, at the time of this writing, we have 35 people thinking this is worthy of an upvote. Something that "good hackers would find interesting". Sorry to say, but this barely gets me to chuckle.

It's not just this one: the fartscroll thing was also something that should not be here. Maybe the implementation was interesting, but c'mon! Top link?

The fartscroll script at least demonstrated how to embed audio data in the script itself and handle cross-browser format differences. Sure, it was a little juvenile, but every once in a while, we have to stop taking ourselves so seriously.

I'm all for keeping things light, but even then we need a time and a place. Otherwise it becomes a slippery slope in what becomes acceptable, and the average submission slowly degrades in quality.

Thats a pretty loose use of the term hackers.

Anyway i thought it was pretty funny.

News for the day: There is a solar eclipse supposedly currently in progress. I can't find mention of it here. Is astronomy not of interest to some hackers?

(Edit: If anyone cares, it is now submitted (by me): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5683139)

http://192.227.129.148/ http://192.227.129.148/404 !

That made my day. I actually have multiple domains pointing to the same box, and the direct ip is defaulting to a different domain than 400.io and thus different content. Still, quite entertaining.

I look forward to similar documentation of all the other HTTP response codes.

What, no Google Analytics on your Show HN post? Classic blunder.

There was enough space in the body for it, too:

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You can still parse your access logs, just like the olden days. I wager a fair number of HN users block Google Analytics anyway.

Certainly do!

http://404.io/ redirects to bitly

I prefer http://httpstat.us/400

I knew there was one that actually returned the status code itself, but my googling failed me.

http://error-cod.es/400

reminds me of the humorous https://github.com/joho/7XX-rfc "RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes - Developer Errors"

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