The directly support you get with HTTP is rather terrible. It works ok for a human browsing a directory manually, but if you want to actually download one it be

The directly support you get with HTTP is rather terrible. It works ok for a human browsing a directory manually, but if you want to actually download one it becomes a mess, since you can't tell if "index.html" is a file or just something Apache generated on the fly. There is no "list directory" command in HTTP (there is PROPFIND in WebDAV) and there is no "download directory" in your browser, you have to fiddle with wget and friends. It's one of the things I love about IPFS, it has native directories along with fuse services, so you can just `cd /ipfs/...` and browse around. That has a lot of beautiful side effects in that you no longer need .zip to package directories and for a lot of things you no longer even need to download anything, you just access them directly via your file system. Especially with FTP being removed from browsers, we could really need a proper official successor that can act as an online file system.