Internet & networking · 1998

RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)

Larry Masinter

Request for Comments 2324 · Informational · 1 April 1998

An April Fools’ RFC extending HTTP to control coffee pots; it defined the 418 I’m a teapot status code.

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