This is a follow-up on my last post about Norwegian newspaper VG adding a reference to Rick Astley (Rick rolling) in their http response headers.
Seems VG is not the only website. I’ve discovered that slashdot (popular nerd news site) adds a random quote to their response headers:
X-Leela: You did the best you could, I guess, and some of these gorillas are okay.
X-Bender: Comedy’s a dead art form. Now tragedy — THAT’S funny.
X-Bender: Stupid anti-pimping laws!
X-Bender: Gimme your biggest, strongest, cheapest drink.
Both Leela and Bender are characters from the comic Futurama.
Or how about this from http://www.scriptworld.kh-webcenter.de/
Limerick: There was a young fellow named Fisher,Who was fishing for fish in a fissure,,When a cod, with a grin,,Pulled the fisherman in,Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fisher.
Or this from http://www.icm-computer.co.uk/
X-kluged-by: Nick, Mic, Ash, Andy
X-munged-by: The powers that be
X-Sanity-Provided-By: Ashleigh
X-Powered-By: Intravenous Caffeine Drips,ASP.NET
The question is why? Is this just an eccentric form of nerdy humor or does theese extra headers have a meaning? Slashdot with all it’s readers are propably throwing away quite a lot of bandwith each year by adding something nearly no one will ever notice.
If you have an answer or know of more site adding strange http headers please let me know.