HTTP Humour

Today I posted this picture to an internal discussion at Atlassian on RESTful APIs.

Tombstone with \"410\" GONE engraved

Charles added some additional, thoughtful alternatives:

Depending on your belief or not in an afterlife/reincarnation, it could be 301 Moved Permanently, or if you believe John Edward, 305 Use Proxy.

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  1. Chris says:

    If the grave gets robbed would it be 404 Not Found?

  2. Yes but it shouldn’t get robbed because every good graveyard has plenty of signs nearby: “403 Forbidden”… errr, ok. I’m tired, jaja.

  3. Oleg says:

    “509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded” might be just the post-mortem to sum up one life’s pains and pleasures.

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