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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.

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  1. Re:Open source trolls? by Spinlock_1977 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Do your research before anonymously flinging mud please. HTTP 418 is a legitimate error code: https://developer.mozilla.org/...

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  2. Re:Open source trolls? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is a legitimate error code only if the device is an actual teapot and was asked to brew coffee. That is not the case in this situation, and the error code is being misused.

  3. Re:You gotta wonder by arth1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you saw the error message, you used a command line interface with a proxy server, and thus were likely tech savvy. And then chances are you'd know about the 418 error code and RFC2324. It's 20 years old now, preceding IOT by quite a bit.