HTTP Status Code 418

The status code 418, also known as "I'm a teapot", is a humorous error code used in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It's not intended to be a serious error message.

Imagine you try to request a cup of coffee from a server. If the server is actually a teapot and not equipped to brew coffee, it might respond with a 418 code, indicating that it's not the right appliance for the task.

This code was defined in 1998 as part of an April Fool's joke in an RFC document outlining a fictional "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol". You won't typically encounter this code in everyday browsing as it's not widely implemented by servers.

Other 4xx Status Codes

• 400 Bad Request
• 401 Unauthorized
• 402 Payment Required
• 403 Forbidden
• 404 Not Found
• 405 Method Not Allowed
• 406 Not Acceptable
• 407 Proxy Authentication Required
• 408 Request Timeout
• 409 Conflict
• 410 Gone
• 411 Length Required
• 412 Precondition Failed
• 413 Payload Too Large
• 414 URI Too Long
• 415 Unsupported Media Type
• 416 Range Not Satisfiable
• 417 Expectation Failed
• 418 I'm a teapot
• 421 Misdirected Request
• 422 Unprocessable Entity
• 423 Locked
• 424 Failed Dependency
• 425 Too Early
• 426 Upgrade Required
• 428 Precondition Required
• 429 Too Many Requests
• 431 Request Header Fields Too Large
• 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons