never mind that most "API" are JSON (or some such) delivered over (S)HTTP anyways. But yes, anything but HTTP is "old". In large part because of corporate fire

never mind that most "API" are JSON (or some such) delivered over (S)HTTP anyways. But yes, anything but HTTP is "old". In large part because of corporate firewall rules that block anything but HTTP traffic (and more often than not filter even that traffic).