HTTP Cats

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?

A few of mine,<p>403: <a href="https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/images/errors/403.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...</a><p>404: <a href="https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/images/errors/404.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...</a><p>405: <a href="https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/images/errors/405.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...</a><p>500: <a href="https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/images/errors/500.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...</a><p>503: <a href="https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/images/errors/503.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tantalor/emend/raw/master/app/static/imag...</a>

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

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?

If you want this minus the cats (and with more features), try <a href="http://httpstat.us/" rel="nofollow">http://httpstat.us/</a>

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

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

I like this one: <a href="http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/599" rel="nofollow">http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/599</a>

None of these actually issue the HTTP status code claimed: they're just linked to pages with images.<p><pre><code> Request URL:http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/404 Request Method:GET Status Code:200 OK</code></pre>

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

+1 for my favorite code:<p><a href="http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/418" rel="nofollow">http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/418</a><p>418: I'm a TeaPot

A gist to load all HTTP cats in your browser: <a href="http://bit.ly/vS19gp" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/vS19gp</a>

Cats. Seriously?