Inspired by this reddit post, boingboing’s report, and the GNU Terry Pratchett website.Ĭontributions welcome at the GitHub repo.The GNU Terry Pratchett plugin transmits an “X-Clacks-Overhead” header reading, “GNU Terry Pratchett” so that Terry’s name is whispered forevermore in the Internet’s “overhead”.

The Clacks Overhead plugin for Chrome and the GNU Terry Pratchett extension for Firefox both light up when they detect the HTML meta tag or HTTP header. You can check that the meta tag is visible by viewing your site’s HTML source and searching for “GNU Terry Pratchett”. If you’d like to send the HTTP header and continue to use a caching plugin, you’ll need to add it at the server level. Note that the HTTP header is only sent if you don’t use a page caching plugin. With the Clacks Overhead Chrome plugin or the GNU Terry Pratchett Firefox extension.There are several ways to check that the HTTP header is appearing for your site: As a meta tag in your HTML with the http-equiv attribute.As an HTTP header (sent only if you don’t use a WordPress caching plugin).The plugin adds the GNU Terry Pratchett header in two ways: This plugin makes it easy for WordPress users to do the same for Terry Pratchett, without having to modify their server configuration. In Pratchett’s “Going Postal”, workers who die in the line of duty have their names transmitted up and down the Discworld’s telegraph system as a tribute. The GNU Terry Pratchett plugin transmits an “X-Clacks-Overhead” header reading, “GNU Terry Pratchett” so that Terry’s name is whispered forevermore in the Internet’s “overhead”.

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