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Yes, exactly, I wasn't excluding 418 in saying all 4xx are errors in the client's request.

But 'client did something weird I don't understand' is a 400, 405, something; not the same as 'this cannot happen' at all.



But it's the clients fault for trying to communicate with a teapot. There's nothing wrong inside the teapot. You just tried to communicate with a teapot. That's silly. Here's a 418 for you.


Again, yes, I am not saying 418 is wrong to be 4xx, I am including it in 'the entire 4xx range are client errors'.




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