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Error 418 – I'm a Teapot

by siliconmountain on 12/2/20, 10:02 PM with 14 comments

• by easton on 12/3/20, 12:24 AM

  Google has a fun version of this: https://google.com/teapot

• by Waterluvian on 12/3/20, 12:10 AM

  I tried using overstock.com yesterday and after visiting four or five pages all subsequent requests returned a blank page with a 418 error. Even on a different computer. Same thing. Even when I tried a different internet source.

  I assume it was some server session error because my friends weren't having the issue.

  But the 418 was a useless error code to report.

• by spc476 on 12/3/20, 1:32 AM

  I have a gopher server [1] that kept getting requests from some webbot. So I extended the gopher server to respond to any HTTP style request with "418 I'm a teapot". Sure enough, the webbot stopped making requests shortly thereafter.

  [1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/

• by qwaxys on 12/4/20, 4:32 PM

  But what if it IS an actual IoT teapot? https://templates.blakadder.com/proficook_PC-WKS_1167.html

• by hbcondo714 on 12/2/20, 11:50 PM

  Lots of http 418 discussions here already:

  https://hn.algolia.com/?q=418

• by infradig on 12/3/20, 12:14 AM

  But it's not an error. It really is a teapot.