HTTP Cats

I unironically use this website everytime I forget a status code at work. The name is instantly memorable, it loads immediately, and I can ctrl-f it. It's basically muscle memory at this point.

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chrisweekly 9 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I prefer https://HTTPStatusDogs.com

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promiseofbeans 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’ve used this site every time I’m doing http networking stuff for the past few years. It’s so easy to just go to http.cat/303 to check a status code you don’t know, or to scroll down the homepage to find the number you need for a specific response.

The cats make it much more fun than a regular docs page, whilst still being a useful quick reference. I wonder if other bits of reference information could be made more interesting in this way.

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potatosalad99 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love how there is a Catalan version too! I guess it’s probably a requirement for getting the .cat domain.

	▲	maxbond 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://icannwiki.org/.cat > Administered by the non-profit Fundació puntCAT under the oversight of ICANN, registrations are available only to individuals and organizations demonstrating use or promotion of the Catalan language and culture.
	▲	paufernandez 13 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The funny thing is that upon registration of a .cat domain you are required to acknowledge that your website is not related to cats at all. So those domains are, in theory, not in compliance.
	▲	hbn 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Does look to be the case. nyan.cat has a language picker that includes Catalan, even though it just changes the page title.
	▲	null0ranje 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		https://http.cat/ca

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HelloUsername 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735614 (2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31438989 (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20283794 (2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161323 (2015)

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mattcantstop 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

404 should have been the cat footprints in the concrete but without the cat.

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tantalor an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used similar idea in an app a while back:

https://github.com/tantalor/emend/blob/master/app/static/ima...

Still gives me a chuckle

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carlos-menezes 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's an alternative[0] for the canine lovers.

[0]: https://httpstatusdogs.com

	▲	cpendery 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or the shorter https://http.dog

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adocomplete an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm partial to http.dog

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shevy-java an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why is the quality of the pictures so low?

	▲	wpm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Because this website has been around for a long time and pictures didn't used to be so big

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agcat an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is hilarious

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taherm789 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Love http and love cats

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reaperducer 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Came for 418. Left happy for Caturday.

(Every web site I've built in the last ten years has a series of conditions that combined will trigger a 418.)

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nkrisc 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is the picture for 303 meant to be the device from Heisenberg’s thought experiment?

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t1234s 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do any browsers recognize a 420 response code?

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graypegg 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Your browser (if you're using one of the "usual ones") doesn't really do much with the response's status code if it doesn't match a few specific ones for redirecting/caching/protocol shenanigans.

Anything in the 4XX range is going to be treated as just a regular ol' response, just like 404. (You could serve an entire site with all responses set to status=404, and be fine... other than probably never getting any cache hits) If you don't include a body in the response, the browser might sub in it's own error page, but it will just communicate that the user agent made a bad request.

	▲	Sohcahtoa82 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I've seen sites that use unexpected HTTP response codes, I think to try to defeat bots. The front page would return a 503 Service Unavailable, but the body was just normal content that would load a bot detection script and then redirect you to the actual content. I successfully wrote a bot that would bypass it all, but it was weird, and became a slight challenge since I couldn't rely on response codes to determine if I succeeded. When I solved the challenge, it would return a 400 Bad Request while serving me the content I was looking for.
	▲	mananaysiempre an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Once upon a time, Internet Explorer used to substitute its own error pages if the body of the error response was too short for its liking. Those depended on whcih error code it got. (I expect nobody has used an old enough IE to see those pages for at least a decade.)

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falcor84 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not to be confused with Cat as a Service - https://cataas.com/

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montroser 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nginx makin' up status codes...

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tkiolp4 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is fun because it’s pre-AI and most of the pics are real. Doing this nowadays would be a meh.

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npodbielski 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

450 gave me good chuckle

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ulrischa 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wo makes this with babies?

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cat-whisperer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is exactly what I was looking for!

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superkuh 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

HTTP 000: HTTP not found. HTTPS CA TLS only.

That said, at least they have a broad cipher set support and their HTTPS-only implemetation does work in older browsers and systems. That's nice. But HTTP+HTTPS would be better.