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Has anybody else noticed that in practice, shit tons of stuff uses a subtly wrong code?
Like every crappy REST API that gives a 200 with an error message in it.
http cat
look inside
httpshttpspsps
Why would 418 ever be used?
Also 425, mood.
418 comes from an April fools’ joke published as RFC7168.
I’ve used it for debugging before because it stands out and is generally suported.
I once returned it in a home assignment in case true == false and added a comment that it’s cosmic radiation induced bit flip detection.
I got the job.
