On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:51 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > HTTP is technically different and not easily comparable to 9p. HTTP is > not a good example of how to do things, but over high-latency links 9p > is much slower for getting files. > > HTTP tries to be stateless as well. Hence REST. 9p is a fairly stateful protocol. ... but then so is NFSv4, and 9p remains simpler.
There's also pi-P documented somewhere that takes the ideas of 9p and makes them more applicable to the space where http is interesting, as well as others. Dave
