Let’s get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we.

Almost ten years ago now, I wrote RFC 7168, “Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances” which extends HTCPCP to handle tea brewing. Both Coffeepot Control Protocol and the tea-brewing extension are joke Internet Standards, and were released on Apr 1st (1998 and 2014). You may be familiar with HTTP error 418, “I’m a teapot”; this comes from the 1998 standard.

I’m giving a talk on the history of HTTP and HTCPCP at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin later this month, and I need an FAQ section; AMA about the Internet and HTTP. Let’s try this out!

  • @where_am_iEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    How do I know the government isn’t spying on me, cuz they could totally go and compromise all root certificates, thus RIP https.

    Oh, and pardon, who the heck does still use http without the s?

    • Two9AOPEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      Well, they could. They could also set up listening posts on every transcontinental pipe as they reach land.

      What’s that, they did?