fix: placekitten.com is returning HTTP 521 (origin dead)#1606
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lib/reactotron-core-client/README.mdreferencesplacekitten.comURLs. The origin has been returning HTTP 521 (Cloudflare origin unreachable) for months.Why this is needed
placekitten.com's origin is returning HTTP 521 (Cloudflare origin unreachable) and has been unreliable throughout 2025-2026. The service is effectively dead for programmatic use.Verify in any shell:
What this PR changes
Fixes the 2
uriexamples in thereactotron-core-clientREADME so the image-log examples actually render a cat image for developers trying reactotron for the first time.Replacement details
cataas.com('Cat as a Service') is alive, returns a 200 cat image at any size via?width=<W>&height=<H>, and preserves the kitten-ness of the original placekitten URL — which seems to be the point of the example. Also upgradeshttp:→https:.Background
I'm tracking dead image-placeholder endpoints (
source.unsplash.com/*,via.placeholder.com/*,placekitten.com/*) across public repos as part of tteg, a tiny CLI/HTTP API I built so projects can drop in real Unsplash photos without registering an Unsplash app or managing API keys. tteg is not introduced as a dependency by this PR — the diff uses the dependency-free canonical replacement domain. If you want topic-matched real photos as a follow-up, the no-key HTTP API is athttps://tteg-api-53227342417.asia-south1.run.app/search?q=<query>&n=1(CORS-on, no auth).One extra artifact you may find handy: a public scanner at https://tteg.kushalsm.com/scan?url= that highlights dead-placeholder patterns in any landing page — useful for verifying the fix lands and for finding other places dead URLs slipped in. Source: https://github.com/kiluazen/tteg-landing/blob/main/scan.html.
Research note covering the broader broken-placeholder landscape: https://github.com/kiluazen/tteg/blob/research-note-autark/RESEARCH.md.