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NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the oops-i-did-it-again dept.

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: Users of the NPM JavaScript package manager were greeted by a weird error yesterday evening, as their consoles and applications spewed a message of "ERR! 418 I'm a teapot" whenever they tried to update or install a new JavaScript/Node.js package. JavaScript developers from all over the world received the error, and not just in certain geographical regions. The bug did not affect all users, but only those behind a proxy server.

6 of 124 comments (clear)

  1. You gotta wonder by Zephyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many people saw that error message and thought to themselves, "This Internet of Things concept is getting way out of hand."

    1. Re:You gotta wonder by Carewolf · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well then good news. NPM isn’t a serious web application. It’s an amateur hour piece of software.

      No it is obviously a teapot.

  2. ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Short and Stout!

    1. Re:ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

      Short and /dev/stdout?

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      Ezekiel 23:20
  3. Found the LUDDITE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Only apps can app apps, and modern appy app apps apped 418 apps while apping other apps!

    Apps!

  4. Could be worse by iTrawl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could have been: 419 I'm a Nigerian Prince.

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    "Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor