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Why on earth is "I'm a teapot" implemented?! #2365

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Poincare opened this issue Dec 18, 2011 · 4 comments
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Why on earth is "I'm a teapot" implemented?! #2365

Poincare opened this issue Dec 18, 2011 · 4 comments
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@Poincare
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In lib/http.js, there is a implementation for HTTP code 418 (which is "I'm a teapot"), is this frivolous, or does it have any particular meaning to it?

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pquerna commented Dec 19, 2011

It is a valid HTTP status code, from an April 1 RFC:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

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Does it mean anything in particular?

@bnoordhuis
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That the server is not a coffee machine. (No joke, there are coffee machines with a web interface).

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wow. that's pretty amazing. Its even more amazing someone who was writing that actually thought of it.

nlacasse pushed a commit to nlacasse/node that referenced this issue Jan 20, 2012
isaacs pushed a commit to isaacs/node-v0.x-archive that referenced this issue Jan 20, 2012
Fix zlib crashes on error due to improper use of removeListener
in the error handler
isaacs added a commit to isaacs/node-v0.x-archive that referenced this issue Jan 27, 2012
* dgram: Bring back missing functionality for Unix (Dan VerWeire, Roman Shtylman, Ben Noordnuis)
  - Note: Windows UDP support not yet complete.

* http: Fix parser memory leak (koichik)

* zlib: Fix nodejs#2365 crashes on invalid input (Nicolas LaCasse)

* module: fix --debug-brk on symlinked scripts (Fedor Indutny)

* Documentation Restyling (Matthew Fitzsimmons)

* Update npm to 1.1.0-3 (isaacs)

* Windows: fix regression in stat() calls to C:\ (Bert Belder)
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