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‣ December 7, 2006 ‣

REST for toddlers

100 Continue: “Mmm hmm…”
200 OK: “OK.”
201 Created: “You went pee-pee in the potty!”
202 Accepted: “Daddy will do it in a minute.”
204 No Content: “…”
300 Multiple Choices: “Do you want apple juice or do you want milk?”
301 Moved Permanently: “That’s Mommy’s job now.”
302 Found: “Ask Mommy.”
303 See Other: “Give it to Mommy.”
304 Not Modified: “The same as the last time you asked me.”
305 Use Proxy: “Did Mommy say it was OK?”
400 Bad Request: “Daddy doesn’t understand.”
401 Unauthorized: “That’s not your soda. That’s Daddy’s soda.”
402 Payment Required: Reserved for future use. (”If you’re not out of this house by your 18th birthday, we’re charging you rent.”)
403 Forbidden: “You’re in timeout.”
404 Not Found: “Daddy can’t find it.”
405 Method Not Allowed: “Don’t draw on the table.”
406 Not Acceptable: “Make another choice.”
407 Proxy Authentication Required: “You didn’t ask Mommy.”
408 Request Timeout: “If you’re not going to answer me, then you get nothing.”
409 Conflict: “Your brother is playing with that right now.”
410 Gone: “Bath is all gone.”
412 Precondition Failed: “If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?”
413 Request Entity Too Large: “It doesn’t fit.”
415 Unsupported Media Type: “Don’t eat your boogers.”
416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable: “No, you can’t have that piece.”
417 Expectation Failed: “No, you can’t have a pony.”
501 Not Implemented: “Daddy can’t fix it.”
502 Bad Gateway: “Mommy said bad words.”
503 Service Unavailable: “Daddy is busy.”
504 Gateway Timeout: “Mommy’s not answering the phone.”
505 HTTP Version Not Supported: “Daddy can’t hear you if you use words like that.”

(The real definitions might help if you don’t get them all.)

Postscript

It is important to remember that REST != HTTP, and status codes don’t tell the whole story. REST is an architectural style which revolves around The Four Verbs:

“Give it here,”
“Here you go,”
“Put that thing back where it came from or so help me,” and
“Flush.”

Thirty two comments here (latest comments)

humm… very well-defined with the toddlerhood in our house! They sound just about right especially 415!

— d
snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Toddler Response Codes (pingback)
bugfox blog » Blog Archive » REST for toddlers (pingback)
Y’know, I was thinking that your ‘backson’ post was a bit misleading. Instead of saying ‘This is neither a 410 nor a 447′, Couldn’t you have simply said ‘503′?

— Michael Bernstein
Gotta love 412. I wonder how many recognize and know the source of that line. Which makes me wonder if there are any other lines in there that I missed.

— Waylan Limberg
Wes Maldonado: Data Junkie » Blog Archive » HTTP Status Code 417 Explained (pingback)
413 made me blush :)

RE: 412 – I wonder how many *don’t* recognize and know the source of that line. Didn’t everyone’s Dad think Floyd on eight-track was never to be turned off?

— Ryan Tomayko
Your comment form prefills the info from the last commenter. – Not Ryan Tomayko

— Ryan Tomayko
What do you mean, “everyone’s Dad”?? I can’t be that old already …

— Stefan Tilkov
Labnotes » Rounded Corners - 70 (pingback)
“RE: 412 – I wonder how many *don’t* recognize and know the source of that line. Didn’t everyone’s Dad think Floyd on eight-track was never to be turned off?”

No, my dad would not have been caught dead listening to Pink Floyd. *I* listened to Pink Floyd. But The Wall was not really my favorite album :D

— Nepharia
Yeah, i enjoyed the small reference to “The Wall”… even though the greatest floyd album is clearly “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”

— Matt Tavares
Sam’s random musings » REST for toddlers (pingback)
“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?”

— Anonymous
HTTP status code translated into toddler’s language | SYP (pingback)
Web Things, by Mark Baker » Blog Archive » links for 2006-12-08 (pingback)
links for 2006-12-08 at tecosystems (pingback)
Oooh, this is so cute! Your children are lucky to have a dad that speaks both geekish and toddlerish.

— Matthias
My God – this is perfect. I do believe I returned every one of these status codes yesterday, save 402, 502 and 505.

— alan taylor
Hilarious. I had toddlers before learning status codes. This would have been the perfect for me when I was learning. Came here via Jeff at blog.codedread.com.

— Candace
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Is “402 Payment Required” a new code, for e-commerce servers perhaps ???

— Chris Noe
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YOu forgot …

101 Switching Protocols

Get mommy to do that.

— Rick
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