{"id":3468,"date":"2012-06-22T19:57:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/http-451-forbidden\/"},"modified":"2012-06-27T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T03:22:04","slug":"http-451-forbidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/22\/http-451-forbidden\/","title":{"rendered":"HTTP 451 Forbidden"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Call for Ray Bradbury to be honoured with internet error message<\/h1>\n

A new status code to reflect internet censorship could be named after Ray Bradbury’s most famous novel, Fahrenheit 451<\/em><\/p>\n

by Alison Flood<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/p>\n

Fire wall \u2026 author Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 features book-burning censors. Photograph: Charley Gallay\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Ray Bradbury<\/a>‘s\u00a0fiction<\/a>\u00a0looks set to enter the structure of the\u00a0internet<\/a>, after a software developer has proposed a new HTTP status code inspired by\u00a0Fahrenheit 451<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tim Bray<\/a>, a fan of Bradbury’s writing, is recommending to the\u00a0Internet Engineering Task Force<\/a>, which governs such choices, that when access to a website is denied for legal reasons the user is given the\u00a0status code 451<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are already a\u00a0host of HTTP status codes<\/a>, from the common 404 Not Found to 504 Gateway Timeout. The 451 idea follows a blogpost from Terence Eden, who found that his ISP had been ordered to censor the Pirate Bay when he was given an HTTP 403 Forbidden message, meaning that “the server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfil it”. In fact,\u00a0Eden writes on his blog<\/a>, it was not Pirate Bay that was preventing access but the government, after\u00a0Britain’s high court issued an order to ISPs to block access to the filesharing site in April<\/a>, so the response was “factually incorrect”, and a new code is needed to indicate “censorship”.<\/p>\n

451, Bray believes, would work nicely, as it would provide a tribute to Bradbury as well as reminding users of the dystopian future predicted by the\u00a0science fiction<\/a>\u00a0author.\u00a0Bradbury died earlier this month<\/a>, leaving behind an oeuvre numbering hundreds of short stories as well as the novels\u00a0Something Wicked This Way Comes<\/a>,\u00a0The Martian Chronicles<\/a>\u00a0and Fahrenheit 451, which tells of a world where books are banned and burned and fireman don’t put fires out but start them.<\/p>\n

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from The Guardian Call for Ray Bradbury to be honoured with internet error message A new status code to reflect internet censorship could be named after Ray Bradbury’s most famous novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Alison Flood Fire wall \u2026 author Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 features book-burning censors. Photograph: Charley Gallay\/Getty Images Ray Bradbury‘s\u00a0fiction\u00a0looks set to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}