HTTP is basically a filesystem protocol that supports magical files -- not too unlike sharing named pipes over SMB. Not too unlike what it'd be like if one cou

HTTP is basically a filesystem protocol that supports magical files -- not too unlike sharing named pipes over SMB. Not too unlike what it'd be like if one could open(2) AF_LOCAL sockets on Unix/POSIX systems instead of having to connect(2) to them -- if that had been so in 1982 in BSD, it would be true now, NFS would have supported the same, etc.