[HN Gopher] Show HN: A poem inside HTTP response headers
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Show HN: A poem inside HTTP response headers
Author : jacobevelyn
Score : 67 points
Date : 2022-04-08 11:57 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (ja.cob.land)
(TXT) w3m dump (ja.cob.land)
| elek wrote:
| My older, but somewhat similar:
|
| > docker pull elek/herbstag && docker history elek/herbstag
|
| But it's just publishing an old (but good) poem, not as cool as
| writing a new one ;-)
| schroeding wrote:
| Very nice! By the way, I love that you explain everything,
| including how console commands can be run! :D
| jacobevelyn wrote:
| Thank you! My hope was to make it accessible to non-technical
| readers while still being fun for people who are familiar with
| HTTP innards.
| jacobevelyn wrote:
| Happy National Poetry Month (USA), HN!
| ResNet wrote:
| This is really cool!
|
| For posterity, below is the output when the command is run:
| $ curl --head https://ja.cob.land/http2-204 HTTP/2 204
| date: one of those frigid Saturdays in November age: just
| turned 27 location: Messina's Trailer Park on Southside
| Drive trailer: 1967 Elcona single-wide (not as bad as it
| sounds) server: at the Neptune Diner until I can get
| published content-disposition: in the late autumn of my
| discontent accept-patch: if it contains nicotine tk:
| oh shit I should put something here expires: in my sleep I
| hope
| jesushax wrote:
| When I come to HN, this is what I'm always hoping to see. Lots
| are here for startup news, FAANG, etc. Nope, I just want to see
| really, really cool fun things.
|
| Great work.
| danuker wrote:
| You should probably spend more time on the Show HN section
| then:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/show
| jacobevelyn wrote:
| Thank you for the kind words! I feel the same.
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| One project I have had in mind for many years is a direct two-
| way, user-to-user communication protocol or user convention that
| only uses HTTP request headers. One benefit would be easier-to-
| write clients and logging servers. There would be no need for the
| complexity of, and hence third party control over, a "web
| browser", nor the need to learn skills (HTML, CSS, Javascript,
| etc.) to develop and maintain a website. Users could communicate
| and transfer small data directly via sending and logging HTTP
| requests.
|
| If one is a avid reader of HTTP server logs, one might conclude
| there is a susbtantial amount of text being transfered over the
| internet via HTTP headers. However, almost all of it is intended
| for use by persons other than users. To me, as a user, this seems
| like a waste.
|
| Others have demonstrated how any bits can be transferred via a
| variety of methods, e.g.,
| https://web.archive.org/web/20001207014600if_/http//decss.zo...
| That included NNTP or e-mail headers, but did not mention HTTP
| headers.
|
| Poetry via HTTP response headers. It's a start!
| denysvitali wrote:
| I was about to complain the misuse of headers and the bad choice
| of not using an X-* header... then I discovered RFC 6648 [0].
|
| Wow.
|
| [0]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6648
| zebraflask wrote:
| Love it! Very clever.
| gkoberger wrote:
| This is awesome!
|
| On a similar note, I added a unique poem to each of our error
| messages a while ago:
|
| https://readme-error-codes.herokuapp.com/
| lxe wrote:
| This is prose!
| Agamus wrote:
| This is lovely! A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, much
| interesting content on the web was only found in source, but this
| is another level of elegance.
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