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[CW Dead Bird] Birds aren't real (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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Wikipedia Article on IP over Avian Carriers (Birds), showing a dead bird as an example of package loss
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

The coffee pot protocol is such an interesting anachronism. Nobody would make a hardware control protocol by extending HTTP like that anymore.

For good reasons, really. It's unnecessary to do it that way.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    That was kind of the author's point: that HTTP is so broadly specified, and at that point had so many unnecessary RFCs extending it, that you could halfway-sensibly write a hardware control protocol by HTTP alone even if that was a terrible idea.

    Source: I wrote the tea-brewing extension to HTCPCP, which takes it another notch into the ridiculous.

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