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I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Two9A@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[-] kromem@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

What's the funniest legitimate non-joke standardization detail you've come across?

[-] Two9A@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

I enjoy that the original draft for the Referer header spelled it wrong, and now we're all stuck with the typo forever...

[-] spindrift@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can someone elaborate on this please?

Edit: oh jeez. I'm so used to reading "referer" I didn't even realize it was a typo.

[-] qwop@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I'd be happy if we'd just accepted "referer" as the correct spelling for everything, but instead we have the "Referrer-Policy" header, so now I need to check the correct spelling for anything involving referring..

I do sort of like the idea that because we want to keep backwards compatibility on software we just change the language instead since that's easier.

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