A New HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles
At the bottom of the page, "Thanks also to Ray Bradbury."<p>It appears they deliberately chose 451 in homage to the great Fahrenheit 451 (or more specifically, to the dystopian future presented in the book).[1]<p>[1] <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120725/06093819827/truth-erroring-ietf-proposal-includes-new-451-censorship-error-code.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120725/06093819827/truth-...</a>