While I'm unsure of what a http query api would look like it would be hugely useful. Every language has some sort of http and xml or Json library, and so do man

While I'm unsure of what a http query api would look like it would be hugely useful. Every language has some sort of http and xml or Json library, and so do many monitoring tools. I probably wouldn't use it for an application, but for back office things like monitoring and stats it would be great.