Established 1 April 1998

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Prices are HTTP status codes. Every dish can be ordered from your terminal.

From the teapot

Earl Grey, or any tea you name200

Steeped at the right temperature, poured in front of you.

curl tea.http418.nl/tea/darjeeling
Tea with milk406

Not acceptable. You'll get the list of what is.

curl -i -H "Accept-Additions: Whole-milk" https://tea.http418.nl/tea
Masala chai with milk200

The one exception to the rule above.

curl -H "Accept-Additions: Whole-milk" https://tea.http418.nl/tea/chai
Hot toddy200

Tea, whisky, honey and lemon. From the cupboard behind the counter.

curl -H "Accept-Additions: Whisky" https://tea.http418.nl/tea
Coffee418

Declined, permanently. It's a teapot. The house speciality.

curl -I https://http418.nl/coffee

From the coffee pot

Filter coffee200

Ground, brewed and poured. Ask for it by the real BREW method if you like.

curl -X BREW coffee.http418.nl
Koffie, kahvi, 咖啡200

Order in any of the languages RFC 2324 lists. Same pot.

curl coffee.http418.nl/koffie
Coffee with additions200

Six milks, four syrups, four spirits. More than one spirit will be commented on.

curl -H "Accept-Additions: Whole-milk, Vanilla" coffee.http418.nl
Decaf406

The RFC gave no options for it. "What's the point?"

curl -i -H "Accept-Additions: Decaf" coffee.http418.nl
Cappuccino, latte, flat white501

Not implemented. The espresso extension was promised in 1998.

curl -i coffee.http418.nl/cappuccino
Espresso, from pot-1503

Temporarily unavailable. Please retry in a year.

curl -i coffee.http418.nl/pot-1
Tea415

Wrong media type. This pot only understands message/coffeepot.

curl -i -X BREW -H "Content-Type: message/teapot" coffee.http418.nl
The ingredients list207

Ask the pot about itself, the WebDAV way.

curl -X PROPFIND https://coffee.http418.nl/pot-0

From the cookie jar

Cookies451

Unavailable for legal reasons. None served, none tracked.

curl -I https://http418.nl/cookies

Off the menu

Anything else404

Tea not found, or coffee not found, depending on which pot you ask.

curl -I https://tea.http418.nl/biscuits

Chef's recommendation

Order a coffee from the teapot. It's what the place is famous for.