HTTP is different, though. Developers are constantly creating thousands of HTTP services. What other Internet protocol can you say that about? Protocols like DN

HTTP is different, though. Developers are constantly creating thousands of HTTP services. What other Internet protocol can you say that about? Protocols like DNS, FTP, NNTP etc tend to be provided by a small number of fixed services. Once in a while there will be a framework for a non-HTTP protocol, like Zed Shaw's Lamson SMTP server, but that's uncommon and I doubt it's widely used. I can't think of any other protocol where even the most unskilled developer is given the tools and encouraged to determine how the protocol is used.