Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol ( to German hypertext Coffee Can control protocol, abbreviation HTCPCP ) is a protocol for controlling and monitoring networked coffee machines. HTCPCP was specified on 1 April 1998 as RFC 2324. Although this is an April Fools joke in this RFC, the specification is sufficiently precise to cover the described application. For the versatile extensible Emacs editor exists a working implementation and for Mozilla there is a request to implement the Protocol, which was rejected.

HTCPCP is an extension to HTTP. HTCPCP requests are identified by the URI scheme coffee :/ / (or the translation of " coffee" in 29 languages ​​) and include various extensions to the standard HTTP methods:

  • BREW or POST: asks to cook the HTCPCP Server coffee.
  • GET: requests the coffee from HTCPCP server.
  • PROPFIND: ask various meta-information from the coffee.
  • WHEN: interrupts the addition of milk to coffee

The exact specifications can be found in the RFC.

It is worth noting in this RFC, developed in 1998, that there is already a coffee machine activation has been described as the Internet of Things was pure utopia.

Specifications

  • RFC 2324 Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol ( HTCPCP/1.0 )

Swell

  • Internet application protocol
  • HTTP
  • Humor
  • Net culture
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