RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012)

Needs something like 708 - Single dev that knew how this house of cards worked is dead.

Jiocus5 anni fa

Are you sure that 780 - Project owner not responding?

    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh) Chrome/Pentagram Safari/537.36 Ouija-Board
    Accept: text/html seance/* sound/breathy-whisper

abujazar5 anni fa

«Relied On A Cloud Provider For Redundance» is missing. Typically misclassified as 503, but really belongs in 77x

jagged-chisel5 anni fa

That's not my (the developer's) fault. 787. Talk to the bean counters.

cwillu5 anni fa

You could have hosted it on your work laptop and you know it.

jagged-chisel5 anni fa

They gave me an abacus. 787.

jepler5 anni fa

754.0000000000001 Binary floating point used

iab5 anni fa

Do we have something like:

auto returncode = isApprox(754);

msluyter5 anni fa

Really enjoyed "718 - I am not a teapot", a clever nod to "418 - I'm a teapot":

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

karmakaze5 anni fa

You realize that 418 really means, "I am not a coffee maker", right?

jonny3835 anni fa

This is wasteful trash and has no place in a standard.

throwaddzuzxd5 anni fa

Good thing it's not in the HTTP standard but in a joke standard then.

hoten5 anni fa

79x needs something akin to "Global nuclear fallout; internet failed to live up to design requirements"

daveslash5 anni fa

Also needs a reference to the AI Singularity ~ i.e. Skynet and the Robot Apocalypse.

contravariant5 anni fa

Isn't that just a special case of 794?

ILMostro75 anni fa

001

pwillia75 anni fa

That's covered under 799 I think

knodi1235 anni fa

yes. if we need to distinguish further, then set the response header X-Apocalypse-Reason

rzimmerman5 anni fa

Big fan of “786 - Try it now”

iab5 anni fa

Maybe 799 - “why is this so important to you anyway”

easton5 anni fa

That one's excellent, perhaps followed closely by "794 - Someone let PG near a REPL"

kazinator5 anni fa

Big fan of "this is the last page of the Internet; go back".

yongjik5 anni fa

Bug report: "733 - Fucking Deadlocks" shouldn't be there? What kind of fake BS deadlock would let the server send back a status code?

jagged-chisel5 anni fa

read it as a verb instead

breckenedge5 anni fa

And that’s how you get a bat virus folks.

yongjik5 anni fa

Sounds like "911 - Immediate Medical Attention Required"

soheil5 anni fa

would still be too busy

question0005 anni fa

747: Server in Airplane Mode.

cwillu5 anni fa

See also: 757, 767, 777, 787, 797

iab5 anni fa

Server crashed (737-Max)

larkost5 anni fa

Missing an entry about "Missed the Balmer peak by that much"

memco5 anni fa

“PC Load Letter” is not on the list. Hope it is added.

lmkg5 anni fa

I think 759 is somewhat related.

dang5 anni fa

Past threads:

RFC for 7xx HTTP status - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577434 - July 2018 (11 comments)

RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status Codes – Developer Errors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467470 - Oct 2015 (2 comments)

RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes - Developer Errors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5442957 - March 2013 (2 comments)

HTTP 7xx: developer errors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497866 - Jan 2012 (7 comments)

Maken5 anni fa

There has to be legitimate uses for the "724 - Unreachable" code.

sellyme5 anni fa

735 and 775 are pretty useful too. They clearly communicate why a page wasn't available and what the user can do about it (get a proper browser, and fuck-all, respectively).

abujazar5 anni fa

787 should be Plane Crash

asciimike5 anni fa

It could also be "IT didn't turn it off and on again" in reference to https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...

usr11065 anni fa

That what be 737 Redundancy is overrated

pmcollins5 anni fa

737 workaround introduced new bug

anotherevan5 anni fa

Unfortunately these have not (as yet) been added to http.cat

arthurcolle5 anni fa

777 - "Idiot dev that wrote this thought that pure belief would keep the steam shovel rolling"

soheil5 anni fa

700 + i: It's complicated

iab5 anni fa

“Imagine that this returned successfully “

soheil5 anni fa

200i

iab5 anni fa

200i + 200j - some real/some imaginary, use caution

I_Byte5 anni fa

The status code of the imagination.

jason23235 anni fa

This might actually be useful!

[deleted]5 anni fa

gurjeet5 anni fa

737 - FuckThreadsing

Pretty clever :-)

pipingdog5 anni fa

Isn't 759 just a special case of 754?

vitus5 anni fa

Not quite -- 754 is "unexpected ;", while 759 is "unexpected ::".

(semicolon vs colons)

roughly5 anni fa

Propose "769: Burning Man"

soheil5 anni fa

777 - Jackpot

enahs-sf5 anni fa

762 - Stoned.

hjek5 anni fa

Should be HTTP 420. Except that'd be a client error.

roughly5 anni fa

Twitter used to return that for rate limiting (with a status message of "Enhance Your Calm") before 429 became standard.

arthurcolle5 anni fa

I mean... that makes more sense

soheil5 anni fa

700 - Hello world

rossdavidh5 anni fa

Well _I_ liked it.

m00x5 anni fa

This is super cringe.

iab5 anni fa

778 - not everyone approves

rossdavidh5 anni fa

Hey, it's HN, if you're not up for super cringe perhaps you shouldn't be here? Or maybe you mean there should be a 7xx code for "This is super cringe"?

RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (2012)(github.com)

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