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"Easter Egg" #1026

Closed reschke closed 2 years ago

reschke commented 2 years ago 
<!--[rfced] Will "Easter egg" be clear to all readers?  Perhaps a
     pointer to wikipedia or the like would be helpful?

Original:
  [RFC2324] was an April 1 RFC that lampooned the various ways HTTP was
  abused; one such abuse was the definition of an application-specific
  418 status code.  In the intervening years, this status code has been
  widely implemented as an "Easter Egg", and therefore is effectively
  consumed by this use.
-->
mnot commented 2 years ago

Perhaps just drop the "as an..." clause.

royfielding commented 2 years ago

Or just

  [RFC2324] was an April 1 RFC that lampooned the various ways HTTP was
  abused; one such abuse was the definition of an application-specific
  418 status code, which has been deployed as a joke often enough for
  the code to be unusable for any future use.
mnot commented 2 years ago

WFM