When Your REST API is a Teapot

Jay Allen
3 min readJun 9, 2021

The unusual story of HTTP error 418.

Picture: Takumi.K / PIXTA(ピクスタ)

Recently I was doing some testing for a client. The task involved using Fiddler to capture and replay requests against a certain site’s REST API. Our goal was to determine what HTTP errors might be produced that would help us with a code analysis we were expected to perform.

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