alt Hacker NewsDear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page
Just got to this error page by refreshing my Gmail tab, seeing the Gmail error page, and then refreshing the error page and getting this. Never seen this posted on the Internet before, but I thought it was interesting.
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I’m getting an imgur error page, but it seems this post is meant to be an image of a Google error page?
I’ve reached the error page of the image of the error page for the error page. We’re too deep.
You found the easter egg gem!
The fact that google's engineers cared about doing that it's pretty funny
Error page of the error page made me smile. Somehow, this makes total sense to me. Consider a reverse proxy where the origin is down and displaying the 'real' error page is not possible because of that. Alternatively, imagine a CloudFront function or Lambda experiencing the same issue, or encountering so many redirects that it interrupts and simply shows the error page of the error page. Nonetheless, I agree that you shouldn't see this issue very often.
Confuse your coworkers by telling them you "won Gmail once".
Always leave a message in "impossible" code paths, you never know who might read it in the end.
The funny thing is, this error message is hardly less useful than the recent trend of error messages which say only, "Something went wrong".
This was added in 2004. Before this change, the error message was:
> If too many of these happen, someone will be paged. If you still see this after half an hour, send mail to [email protected]
(For curious folks working for Hooli, the magic number is 472481)