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HTTP Cats
- roninapps 9mo ago[dead]
- renegat0x0 9mo ago- https://httpgoats.com/ https://httpgoats.com/ - https://httpcats.com/ https://httpcats.com/ - https://http.garden/ https://http.garden/ - https://httpducks.com/ https://httpducks.com/ - https://http.fish/ https://http.fish/ - https://http.pizza/ https://http.pizza/ - https://httpstatusdogs.com/ https://httpstatusdogs.com/ I maintain a list of domains, so it was quite easy to find them - https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
- swordsith 9mo agolove this lol so many images I've never seen before but definitely should be peak internet culture.
- joebig 9mo agoCat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
- potatosalad99 9mo agoI love how there is a Catalan version too! I guess it’s probably a requirement for getting the .cat domain.
- hbn 9mo agoDoes look to be the case. nyan.cat has a language picker that includes Catalan, even though it just changes the page title.
- maxbond 9mo agoImho it's pretty messed up that their translation tool doesn't actually translate the page and only translates one element. For the most part the site is a lark and the text unimportant. But the banner disclaiming any affiliation with any meme coin really ought to be translated.
- maxbond 9mo agohttps://icannwiki.org/.cat https://icannwiki.org/.cat > Administered by the non-profit Fundació puntCAT under the oversight of ICANN, registrations are available only to individuals and organizations demonstrating use or promotion of the Catalan language and culture.
- mycall 9mo agoIs that available for every country root server?
- maxbond 9mo agoAs far as I can tell, there is no rule requiring this wiki to be kept up to date (it's not run by ICANN, though they sponsor it), but I've had good luck with it. The wiki is updated fairly frequently: https://icannwiki.org/Special:RecentChanges https://icannwiki.org/Special:RecentChanges . I wasn't able to find a list that proves it covers every TLD but there are about 9x as many articles as TLDs, so I think it's likely. Someone with better MediaWiki chops could probably figure it out. I think that information is there I just don't know how to access it. ETA: This category lists 314 ccTLDs. https://icannwiki.org/Category:CcTLD https://icannwiki.org/Category:CcTLD There are 316 ccTLDs. So; it's either missing 2, or they are documented but not in the right category. If you're looking for an authoritative source I think you should check out the PSL, but it doesn't have the right metadata to answer your question. You'd need to supplement it somehow. https://publicsuffix.org/ https://publicsuffix.org/
- null0ranje 9mo agohttps://http.cat/ca https://http.cat/ca
- paufernandez 9mo agoThe funny thing is that upon registration of a .cat domain you are required to acknowledge that your website is not related to cats at all. So those domains are, in theory, not in compliance.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoThey don't ask you to "acknowledge that your website is not related to cats at all", they're asking you to confirm that the website "serve(s) the needs of the Catalan Linguistic and Cultural Community on the Internet" by entering what the intended use is. Signed, owner of emsh.cat. One could say by having the websites become popular and viral, and offering versions of the their websites in Catalan, they are spreading Catalan culture to more parts of the internet. We're having a discussiong about it right now, others are reading, pretty big impact from just the TLD choice :)
- lmz 9mo agoBut what if it's a Catalan cat charity?
- Biganon 9mo agoI used to own long.cat and I never bothered
- taherm789 9mo agoLove http and love cats
- rireads 9mo agoReal
- superkuh 9mo agoHTTP 000: HTTP not found. HTTPS CA TLS only. That said, at least they have a broad cipher set support and their HTTPS-only implemetation does work in older browsers and systems. That's nice. But HTTP+HTTPS would be better.
- HelloUsername 9mo agoPrevious discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735614 (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31438989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31438989 (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20283794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20283794 (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161323 (2015)
- carlos-menezes 9mo agoThere's an alternative[0] for the canine lovers. [0]: https://httpstatusdogs.com https://httpstatusdogs.com
- cpendery 9mo agoOr the shorter https://http.dog https://http.dog
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- t1234s 9mo agoDo any browsers recognize a 420 response code?
- graypegg 9mo agoYour browser (if you're using one of the "usual ones") doesn't really do much with the response's status code if it doesn't match a few specific ones for redirecting/caching/protocol shenanigans. Anything in the 4XX range is going to be treated as just a regular ol' response, just like 404. (You could serve an entire site with all responses set to status=404, and be fine... other than probably never getting any cache hits) If you don't include a body in the response, the browser might sub in it's own error page, but it will just communicate that the user agent made a bad request.
- mananaysiempre 9mo agoOnce upon a time, Internet Explorer used to substitute its own error pages if the body of the error response was too short for its liking. Those depended on whcih error code it got. (I expect nobody has used an old enough IE to see those pages for at least a decade.)
- Sohcahtoa82 9mo agoI've seen sites that use unexpected HTTP response codes, I think to try to defeat bots. The front page would return a 503 Service Unavailable, but the body was just normal content that would load a bot detection script and then redirect you to the actual content. I successfully wrote a bot that would bypass it all, but it was weird, and became a slight challenge since I couldn't rely on response codes to determine if I succeeded. When I solved the challenge, it would return a 400 Bad Request while serving me the content I was looking for.
- Nextgrid 9mo ago204 has weird behavior in Safari and Firefox for example. Entering a URL returning 204 in the URL bar will not change the URL bar to it, leaving its contents to whatever was there before. Similarly if you click on it it would not actually navigate to the page. URL to test: https://httpbin.org/status/204 https://httpbin.org/status/204
- nkrisc 9mo agoIs the picture for 303 meant to be the device from Heisenberg’s thought experiment?
- falcor84 9mo agoNot to be confused with Cat as a Service - https://cataas.com/ https://cataas.com/
- rogeriopvl 9mo agoThis is a great idea. Love it!
- cat-whisperer 9mo agothis is exactly what I was looking for!
- ulrischa 9mo agoWo makes this with babies?
- npodbielski 9mo ago450 gave me good chuckle
- montroser 9mo agoNginx makin' up status codes...
- tkiolp4 9mo agoThis is fun because it’s pre-AI and most of the pics are real. Doing this nowadays would be a meh.
- mattcantstop 9mo ago404 should have been the cat footprints in the concrete but without the cat.
- spockz 9mo agoActually, that would be “401 Gone”. :-)
- roblh 9mo agoI unironically use this website everytime I forget a status code at work. The name is instantly memorable, it loads immediately, and I can ctrl-f it. It's basically muscle memory at this point.
- snailmailman 9mo agoSame. I know and see several of the codes all the time. But occasionally I encounter a weird one and I always go to http.cat to find out what it is.
- CleverUSB 9mo agoAhaha same.
- precommunicator 9mo agoI always post a cat from it whenever I need to specify a response code in an issue ;)
- silverwind 9mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes is a bit more practical
- flexagoon 9mo agoYes, but opening that and searching for "411" is much slower than just typing "http.cat/411" into the URL bar
- tantalor 9mo agoI used similar idea in an app a while back: https://github.com/tantalor/emend/blob/master/app/static/images/errors/500.jpg https://github.com/tantalor/emend/blob/master/app/static/ima... Still gives me a chuckle
- agcat 9mo agoThis is hilarious
- adocomplete 9mo agoI'm partial to http.dog
- ninju 9mo agohttps://http.dog/ https://http.dog/
- shevy-java 9mo agoWhy is the quality of the pictures so low?
- wpm 9mo agoBecause this website has been around for a long time and pictures didn't used to be so big
- reaperducer 9mo agoCame for 418. Left happy for Caturday. (Every web site I've built in the last ten years has a series of conditions that combined will trigger a 418.)
- promiseofbeans 9mo agoI’ve used this site every time I’m doing http networking stuff for the past few years. It’s so easy to just go to http.cat/303 to check a status code you don’t know, or to scroll down the homepage to find the number you need for a specific response. The cats make it much more fun than a regular docs page, whilst still being a useful quick reference. I wonder if other bits of reference information could be made more interesting in this way.
- chrisweekly 9mo agoI prefer https://HTTPStatusDogs.com https://HTTPStatusDogs.com
- ivanstepanovftw 9mo agoThere is also https://http.dog/ https://http.dog/
- fencepost 9mo agoWorth noting that http.dog includes 218 This is Fine, which is an Apache-specific response code. It does not, however, use a cartoon dog in a room on fire.
- opengrass 9mo ago599 is good for any error.
- shoo 9mo agohttps://www.keanu.codes/ https://www.keanu.codes/
- meken 9mo agoLove it. Only feedback I have is when I click into an image then hit back, it brings me to the top of the page which is kind of annoying. I wish it held my place.
- rogeriopvl 9mo agoThanks for the feedback. I'm going to fix that. Issue created: https://github.com/httpcats/http.cat/issues/258 https://github.com/httpcats/http.cat/issues/258
- dionian 9mo agoglad you got the teapot
- mshroyer 9mo agoIllustrating "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" with Ray Bradbury made me laugh
- shmeeed 9mo agoThank you for explaining the reference!
- mshroyer 9mo agoI didn't realize, until recognizing Bradbury in that image yesterday, that HTTP status 451 is an explicit reference to "Fahrenheit 451", but apparently it is: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7725 In the acknowledgments section, > Thanks also to Ray Bradbury.
- 4nonverbal-alit 9mo agoI used to have a middleware that replaced generic http error responses with http.cat pics. One time a VIP somehow got into a URL that returned http 400 response on the website and got mad. I ended up getting a call to explain why the website is showing middle finger to our VIP customer.
- lazystar 9mo agostill, probably better than a 450 error, at least
- mszcz 9mo agoCouple of years ago I worked as a full stack web dev for a electronics distributor. At that time we had a couple of DB problems, it would get overwhelmed, shit itself and our page would show an error. I found some time and, instead of fixing the error (duh ;P), I downloaded around 20-30 funny cat gifs, assigned each a funny caption and modified the error page so that each would show randomly. Next time the DB shit itself, the error page showed up and the cats wrought refresh chaos upon Apache but it took it in stride since the error page was mostly static. Everyone was delighted but after around 15 minutes I got a call from sales asking my to take the cats down. „It’s not very businessy, take it down!”. „The site is down either way, would you rather our clients stare at a dry message or something funny?”. „Dry message! Take it down”. „No” and I hung up. So proud of myself that I stood up to them. I think the cats are still up to this day ;) The point of this story is that http.cat made me think of those cat pages, thanks!
- aniforprez 9mo agoI still do this day mourn the old httpstatus.io or whatever it was domain that got acquired a few years back and became completely useless. This one endures and I love it. This one stays bookmarked but at least the MDN page on status codes now pops up as the first useful link when you search for "http status codes"
- 701mk 9mo agohttpstatus.io is actually a good tool that I've been using for over 3 years now so I think it isn't that domain that got acquired?
- aniforprez 9mo agoYeah I did some mild research and the domain I'm thinking of was httpstatuses.com which was acquired by WebFX and turned useless. jkulton revived it at https://httpstatuses.io/ https://httpstatuses.io/ which they document in their blog https://jkulton.com/2022/reviving-httpstatuses/ https://jkulton.com/2022/reviving-httpstatuses/
- tonychang430 9mo agoevery once in a while i use this! it's so easy to memorize this domain
- lsofzz 9mo agoHaha made my day
- rogeriopvl 9mo agohttp.cat author here. A shout out to Tomomi Imura, because HTTP Status Cats was her idea and I just made the images available through an API. It's crazy to think that since 2010 this still pops up on the HN front page from time to time. Thank you for that! http.cat is a testament of how simple, fun and silly the internet was back then. I'll try to keep it online for as long as I can. I love reading the stories you all share online about it, they fuel my motivation to keep it up and I'm always open to feedback and new ideas. So feel free to share them here or on the github repo. Cheers!
- pandler 9mo agoThanks for keeping that service up and running! I think it’s been about 10 years since I found it and it’s been my go-to reference ever since. I’ll often get laughs from people when I share it as reference.
- danielodievich 9mo agoIt is my favorite http resource. I pull it up during troubleshooting conference calls for inevitable lightening of mood. +1000 karma to you
- ashikns 9mo agoI discovered it today and I'm in love! Thank you for maintaining a piece of simple joy for more than a decade <3
- grelek 9mo agoAnytime I need to check an HTTP status code I go to http.cat. I get the answer to my question and a cat picture as a bonus.
- thomascgalvin 9mo agoThis is what the internet was supposed to be
- geostyx 9mo agoI've used http.cat for years to double check what an http code is for. Thank you both for making it!
- throwaway290 9mo agoI don't get why this picture for HTTP 497.
- jama211 9mo agoNow this is what the internet was made for
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- sph 9mo agoAlso, for the frontend devs out there: https://placecats.com/ https://placecats.com/ https://placekittens.com/ https://placekittens.com/
- tanelpoder 9mo agoSince we are talking cats here, let me plug my CatBench vector search playground app, intended to learn and demonstrate in a visual way how (PyTorch + ViT) image embeddings and (Postgres) vector search work together with your regular OLTP transactional data. I implemented a toy version of a purchase recommendation system based on “cat customer” image similarity and “cat fraud detection” building block too: https://github.com/tanelpoder/catbench https://github.com/tanelpoder/catbench Also, a simple browser-only page for visually demonstrating what embeddings/vectors physically are, for explaining this to database & storage folks: https://tanelpoder.com/catvector/ https://tanelpoder.com/catvector/ (Initial load of the vector heatmaps may take a few seconds when you click on a pet type)
- athom 9mo agoIn three decades of surfing the web, I've never encountered more than a couple of those error messages. This set of pictures makes me wish I'd run into them more often.