![]() ![]() Now, you may be asking, if this is a COFFEE protocol, why the "teapot" code? This is answered in Section 2.3.2. If you have never read it, it’s definitely worth a read. Now, the RFC is pretty funny with lines like "Coffee pots heat water using electronic mechanisms, so there is no fire. This was a brand new protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots. Every year since 1989, they release a few humorous RFC’s for April’s Fool Day and on April 1st, 1998, RFC 2324 introduced the "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol" or (HTCPCP/1.0). To propose new standards, the members release RFC’s or "Requests for Comments" to the community. So, what’s the "418 I'm a teapot" all about? Well, the group of people who make these codes and set the standards is the IETF or "Internet Engineering Task Force". For example, some popular codes are “301 Page Moved Permanently” and the ever ubiquitous “404 Page Not Found”. Whenever any page or file is accessed on your site (whether it’s a user accessing it in a browser or a search engine crawling a page), your server returns an HTTP status code in response to the request and it provides information about the status. B ut first, a really quick introduction on status codes. So what's that all about? I'll explain in a bit. If you look through the full list of HTTP status codes, you'll see one that really stands out: "418: I'm a teapot".
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