Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol
Back-end infrastructure of error418.net, which implements HTCPCP using a teapot and Raspberry Pi
International standardInternet Engineering Task Force
Developed byLarry Masinter
IntroducedApril 1, 1998 (1998-04-01)
Websiterfc2324
Working teapot implementing HTCPCP[1]

The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP) is a facetious communication protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots. It is specified in RFC 2324, published on 1 April 1998 as an April Fools' Day RFC,[2] as part of an April Fools prank.[3] An extension, HTCPCP-TEA, was published as RFC 7168 on 1 April 2014[4] to support brewing teas, also as an April Fools' Day RFC in error 418.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference JR was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Masinter, Larry M. (April 1998), "Request for Comments 2324", Network Working Group, IETF, archived from the original on 2012-04-04, retrieved 2012-03-20
  3. ^ DeNardis, Laura (30 September 2009). Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance. MIT Press. pp. 27ff. ISBN 978-0-262-04257-4. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
  4. ^ Nazar, Imran (April 2014), "Request for Comments 7168", The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA), IETF, archived from the original on 2014-05-29, retrieved 2014-04-22