Today I (re-)learned about the “418 I’m a Teapot” [1] error code, which was first codified in the April’s fools issue of Internet request for comments for 1998. RFC2324 [2] describes the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0), and has 418 as that particular error code.
I think it might be useful, as part of the combined measures against unauthorized AI scraping, to start returning that HTTP 418 I’m a teapot error… or even mess with them with different ludicrous non-coffee things to be, such as a mate bowl, or I’m a spaceship…
After all, that’s what Internet of Things shitposting should be about, right?
/ht @osma
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/418
[2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324
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