[HN Gopher] HTTP Cats
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HTTP Cats
Author : peterkos
Score : 253 points
Date : 2022-05-19 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (http.cat)
(TXT) w3m dump (http.cat)
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| My fave is 406.
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| [deleted]
| turtlebits wrote:
| These all return 200s for me. Or am I missing the joke?
| cheschire wrote:
| 416, the joke was out of your humor range.
| beardog wrote:
| It's because 200 is correct if you are getting the correct
| image. I believe you're meant to hotlink the images in an HTML
| error page when your site returns the given code.
| glerk wrote:
| TIL HTTP code 420 is a thing.
| Spoom wrote:
| It was invented by Twitter as a code for "you're exceeding our
| rate limits" and just sorta stuck.
|
| Less cool companies use 429.
| Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
| I've had an idea for a Python web app framework (because that's
| what Python needs, another web framework), maybe I'll have a
| "use_cats" option to automatically use these with status codes.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _HTTP Cats_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20283794 -
| June 2019 (74 comments)
| productceo wrote:
| Thank you. I am finally empowered to build the API I've been
| planning to build for years!
| xyzal wrote:
| Slightly superior version: https://http.dog/
| gtirloni wrote:
| The interesting thing is that .dog os one of the new TLDs
| anyone can register while .cat is exclusive to Catalans.
| Typical of cats.
| distantsounds wrote:
| anyone can register a .cat domain and you don't need it in
| their language, though it may be against their "rules"
| d110af5ccf wrote:
| anyone can cash a fraudulent check, though it may be
| against their "rules"
|
| edit: Quite puzzled that this is being downvoted. The
| comment I responded to is suggesting to disregard the TLD's
| rules when registering domains. You certainly _can_ do that
| but as far as I understand it is a form of fraud (you are
| materially misrepresenting yourself and your situation to
| the TLD). Realistically probably the worst that will happen
| to you is that your domain will get yanked if they figure
| it out but that might well be a problem for you and
| regardless it doesn 't change that what you did likely
| violated multiple laws.
| corderop wrote:
| 402 payment required XD
| thghtihadanacct wrote:
| 420 enhance your calm
| verve_rat wrote:
| Lies.
| alexfromapex wrote:
| Slightly superior HN post:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29663873
| aodj wrote:
| Haha nice! Also https://httpstatusdogs.com/
| drdaeman wrote:
| > superior
|
| They probably told you on the Internet, nobody knows you're a
| dog? See, that was a lie. :)
|
| j/k
| boardwaalk wrote:
| That was significantly less funny, I think :(. Regardless of
| cat vs dog. More just funny dog pictures than ones connected to
| the status codes.
| ufo wrote:
| I started by scrolling straight to 418, to see how they handled
| that one.
| warpech wrote:
| Same here, it did not dissapoint!
| coopreme wrote:
| I hope this app is catainerized
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| If not, it could be catastrophic.
| hirundo wrote:
| The guy in 451 is noted cat fancier Ray Bradbury. I couldn't find
| the cat's name.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| Thanks, I knew there was more to that picture that I could see.
| nescioquid wrote:
| I totally didn't get that gag! Thanks for the hint!
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| this is pushing the boundaries of pedagogy
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| This is something like 10 years old.
|
| Some previous discussion:
|
| _3 years ago_ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20283794
| ohjeez wrote:
| It's more than 10 years old.
|
| I don't care. It's so wonderful that I WANT this to show up on
| my feed every so often.
| dinkleberg wrote:
| Not saying I'd ever actually use this (though also not saying I
| wouldn't lol), but what is the best practice for using external
| sources like this?
|
| When using something like Unsplash I know they've got lots of
| resources and a good setup so calling out to their API seems safe
| enough.
|
| But for a random service like this, I have no idea if they have
| the infrastructure to support a lot of calls. I don't want to
| abuse a random service.
|
| In this case I assume it is all behind a cdn and it's no big deal
| for them.
|
| But if you're not sure and it turns out to be an important part
| of what you're building, do you just setup your own cached
| version using varnish or something?
| dinosaurdynasty wrote:
| Considering the license seems to be MIT
| https://github.com/httpcats/http.cat you could probably just
| host the images yourself (or on your CDN/etc)
| charcircuit wrote:
| MIT is a software license. Does it even give you rights to
| the images? Also I'm not positive that the owner of that
| repository was the one who created all of those images.
| dinkleberg wrote:
| Ah I missed the GH link, that does seem like the right move
| in this case.
| suprfsat wrote:
| Is Cloudflare capable of serving 67 jpegs?
| dinkleberg wrote:
| My question is more generic. Not for this specific service,
| but for any random service you don't have good visibility
| into how they run it.
| suprfsat wrote:
| Good point, I use http://butt.holdings quite often and
| never thought to check.
|
| Headers say they're running varnish, so it's probably safe
| to keep using it.
| dinkleberg wrote:
| Amazing, gonna have to add that one to the list of great
| single purpose sites.
| henryfjordan wrote:
| The instructions at the top of the page encourage you to hot-
| link directly to the images they host. It would be hard to say
| sending them a ton of traffic is "abuse" when they literally
| suggest you do that.
|
| In general though hot-linking across domains like that is bad
| practice because the content on the other domain might change
| in a way you don't like. This was a pretty common practice for
| a while:
| https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotlinkedImageSw...
|
| If those images turn out to be important to your project such
| that http.cats going down would be an issue, absolutely you
| should serve a copy of that content from your servers (assuming
| all the copyright licenses are in order).
| SemanticStrengh wrote:
| is there a way to auto filter a domain extensions by popularity?
| e.g. a way to discover http.dog and others. Unfortunately
| http.human does not exist
| rpastuszak wrote:
| I don't know what is says about me as a software engineer, but
| that site is the first place I visit to look up more obscure
| statuses.
| nkrisc wrote:
| I do the same. It's easy to remember, to the point, and no
| fluff. Ok, there's lots of fluff.
| EddieLomax wrote:
| I like this one, but it's arguably less fun:
|
| https://httpstatus.in/
| corrral wrote:
| I always "!wiki http status codes", but I think I like your way
| better. May start doing that.
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