Lots of tools for interacting with services via http. Curl, urllib, SOAP etc etc. Node.js / Python both have very good support for http. Soap etc, run a web se

Lots of tools for interacting with services via http. Curl, urllib, SOAP etc etc. Node.js / Python both have very good support for http. Soap etc, run a web server for quick file serving from command line if you want. Dgraoh and other tools can easily be interfaced via http. Why not leverage all that?