HTTP 418 I’m a teapot

In short: A joke status code from the “Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol” of 1 April 1998 (RFC 2324).

In more detail: The server refuses to brew coffee because it is a teapot. Some services use it for rejected bots.

In Depth

Possible causes

• Sent deliberately by a service, often for bot defence.

Solutions

1. Usually not a real problem: check whether the request looks like a bot (user agent, rate).

See also: HTTP