418 I'm a teapot

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New! Brew coffee here

# the L is needed!!!

curl -L -H "User-Agent: CoffeeNeedingITGuy/1.0" https://teapot.mcds.moe

# or

curl -L -H "Content-Type: application/coffee-pot-command" https://teapot.mcds.moe

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HTTP error "418 I'm a teapot" was defined in the april fools jokes of 1998 and 2014. It was defined for the RFC 2324 aka. Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol. The error is returned when a server refuses to brew coffee because it is a teapot. Sadly the RFC is not completely implemented on this site, so you can't brew coffee here. But you can still enjoy the error message.

References

• RFC 2324
• Wikipedia
• HTTP Status Cats