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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: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.