I tried using overstock.com yesterday and after visiting four or five pages all subsequent requests returned a blank page with a 418 error. Even on a different computer. Same thing. Even when I tried a different internet source.<p>I assume it was some server session error because my friends weren't having the issue.<p>But the 418 was a useless error code to report.
I have a gopher server [1] that kept getting requests from some webbot. So I extended the gopher server to respond to any HTTP style request with "418 I'm a teapot". Sure enough, the webbot stopped making requests shortly thereafter.<p>[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/
But what if it IS an actual IoT teapot?
<a href="https://templates.blakadder.com/proficook_PC-WKS_1167.html" rel="nofollow">https://templates.blakadder.com/proficook_PC-WKS_1167.html</a>
Lots of http 418 discussions here already:<p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?q=418" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?q=418</a>