[saltcured]

FWIW, I'm not particularly fond of HTTP. But there is PTSD in both directions. Doing random things ignoring (or subverting) "protocol purity" often create disastrous effects when they haven't considered how the larger system will behave when you have various middleware bits that are essentially obeying different protocols while superficially claiming to use an interoperable standard.

When I let myself ruminate, it irks me that we all let HTTP become the defacto "internet protocol" just because of firewalls. Because there was a cargo cult idea that HTTP is benign and so one of few ports allowed almost everywhere, we do stupid contortions to squeeze every protocol through an HTTP tunnel.

These short-sighted acts of laziness accumulate into HTTP everywhere. And of course, the firewall is nearly pointless when "everything" is going through that one hole anyway.