HTTP Cats

http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/

by chrisguitarguy • 15 years ago

150 30 15 years ago

httpcats.herokuapp.com

tectonic• 15 years ago

I like this one: http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/599

100k• 15 years ago

I love Heroku, LOLcats, and HTTP so I am very disappointed in myself right now for not thinking of this. Nice work, sir.

chrisguitarguy• 15 years ago

Not mine, just stumbled on it. My favorite: http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/418

thedufer• 15 years ago

In case the original author shows up here: on first glance, the index page looks like an error page. Perhaps a little formatting or color so I don't assume the server is down and hit back immediately?

rogeriopvl3• 15 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. This was something I did quickly for some friends, so I didn't add any style to it. Never thought that it would get popular.

Toddward• 15 years ago

This would be so much easier if the status codes on the index just linked to the actual pages.

oinksoft2• 15 years ago

I'll keep this up for a day.

http://oinksoft.com/http-cats.html

rogeriopvl3• 15 years ago

Yes, you're right. I'll add links to the status codes. Thanks for the feedback!

timinman• 15 years ago

So great! And then you plussed it with an Easter Egg (418)!

greenyoda• 15 years ago

That's not an Easter egg; it's a legitimate status code from RFC 2324 (April 1, 1998):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_418

nickloewen• 15 years ago

That doesn't make it not an easter egg, though. Most 'easter eggs' function perfectly for what they are, they're just also amusing and not entirely necessary.

pluies_public• 15 years ago

Quite a few RFCs published on April 1st are to be considered with somewhat of a grain of salt, cf. RFC 1149 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt)

JonnieCache• 15 years ago

If you want this minus the cats (and with more features), try http://httpstat.us/

joshu• 15 years ago

http://httpstat.us/404 dumps the actual code.

tantalor• 15 years ago

A few of mine,

403: https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...

404: https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...

405: https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...

500: https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...

503: https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...

rw• 15 years ago

A gist to load all HTTP cats in your browser: http://bit.ly/vS19gp

xentronium• 15 years ago

Cats. Seriously?

CWIZO• 15 years ago

I'm wondering what's so special here too. And don't get me wrong I love cats. In fact I literally just brought home two little kittens :)

nostromo• 15 years ago

+1 for my favorite code:

http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/418

418: I'm a TeaPot

andrewreds• 15 years ago

isn't 418 from the HTCPCP specification, rather then HTTP?

jrockway2• 15 years ago

The Flickr discussion made the same point. The conclusion was that pictures of cats are meant to be amusing rather than literal expressions of a single IETF standard.

bryanh• 15 years ago

Just in case you want something more full featured (think IP, COOKIES, POST, GZIP, STREAMS, etc...) check out http://httpbin.org/ from the same guy that brought sanity to http requests in Python: http://kennethreitz.com/

198d• 15 years ago

So, there's definitely been a few discussion recently about the quality of Hacker News articles and their relevancy to the community. Is this post an indication that LOLCats are of high priority for discussion?

oinksoft2• 15 years ago

I don't see an issue with web developer-oriented levity. I believe this should be a protected class of LOLCats.

patrickyeon• 15 years ago

There's always a discussion about quality and relevancy. What I find most interesting here is that 'cute animal pictures' are specifically called out as off-topic in the guidelines, and cat pictures hold such a strong connotation of lack of content to me.

And then, 130 points puts it at 5th or 6th rank of the front page, sorted just by points (at the time of this post).

</snob>

jrockway2• 15 years ago

It's a honeypot article. Upvote it and your upvotes count less. Flag it, and your flags count more.

bkrausz• 15 years ago

None of these actually issue the HTTP status code claimed: they're just linked to pages with images.

  Request URL:http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/404
  Request Method:GET
  Status Code:200 OK

rogeriopvl3• 15 years ago

That's the point. And it's not linked to "pages with images". It actually just returns the image as Content-Type header field reveals :)

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