I concur, it's 2026 and there's no reason not to use HTTP for everything.
It beats firewalls, it has headers for metadata, it has end to end encryption (as long as the application front-end doesn't strip it), etc.
kline 🏴
npub1jf…5cmcu
2026-02-17 12:09:05 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…5jqk
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