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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Why would 418 ever be used?

Also 425, mood.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

418: catchall API response when all else fails. Easy to filter in logs.

[–] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 10 points 4 hours ago

418 comes from an April fools' joke published as RFC7168.

I've used it for debugging before because it stands out and is generally suported.