> they hired a web developer to write their driver configuration tool This is the real problem behind all of these cases of "why the heck is tool/driver/app/wh

> they hired a web developer to write their driver configuration tool This is the real problem behind all of these cases of "why the heck is tool/driver/app/whatever X running a web server locally?" - the market is full of developers only knowing HTTP, and when someone just has a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. There is a real shortage of devs who know about all the other IPC techniques supported by modern OSes (of which practically all of them are much faster, lower latency, less overhead-y, more secure and come with less unintended side effects than a local web server).