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Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by some_account on Saturday July 21, 2018 @04:06AM (#17581176)
I think it should be reserved for ad blocker detected, together with a browser setting that pops up a message that the server is not allowing people with ad blockers.

Then we could just easily ignore those sites who serve ads as a requirement, and they could go die in a fire.

Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by na85 on Friday July 20, 2018 @08:06PM (#17579961)
I mean I get it, but I also don't get it.
Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by frabert on Saturday July 21, 2018 @03:21AM (#17581082)
I fail to see the humour in this, how are those HTTP responses? When would a server respond to a request with "Haskell"? Makes no sense to me, while " I'm a teapot" made perfect sense
Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by andrewmackrodt on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:17PM (#17582463)
733 (D)ucking Deadlocks - I support 1000%
Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by hyperman1 on Saturday July 21, 2018 @06:45AM (#17581560)
Look at 759 ! That's actually a real error message.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator#PHP

What were the PHP guys smoking to consider this a usable error message?

Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by dozzie on Saturday July 21, 2018 @11:00AM (#17582210)
I know you'd happily bash PHP author for such an incomprehensible error message, but it's not his own message, but something that comes from Yacc/Bison, when the next parsed token is not what can legally follow whatever the parser read up until now. It's just the tokens (or maybe just this one; I haven't read the grammar) were not named in currently canonical English.
Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by seandougall on Saturday July 21, 2018 @11:45PM (#17585180)
It is, notably, just that one. If everything were in Hebrew, I would personally be perfectly happy to adjust. But being the only non-English token makes it a completely unnecessary source of cognitive load in a language that is already criticized for its standard library’s frequently inconsistent use of grammar.
Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by hyperman1 on Saturday July 21, 2018 @11:12AM (#17582252)
It wasnt formulated nicely, I grant you that. PHP bashing is easy even if the language caused big upsides for a lot of people.

But a developer is responsible for the consequences of his choices. If you name your tokens in Hebrew with consequences for error messages, you know you're gonna raise some eyebrows and cause pain for your colleagues.

The simple fact that the message is in this list proves that I am not alone with this opinion.

Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by arnarbi on Friday July 20, 2018 @09:44PM (#17580288)
To be honest, I have many places that should return 724.
Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by ricanontherun on Sunday July 22, 2018 @06:45AM (#17586158)
Dammit I thought this was serious.
Re:RFC for 7xx HTTP status by gdamjan1 on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:20PM (#17582474)
not worth the bits it's on