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Re:WebUSB is dead by ptx on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:07PM (#22229793)
That text protocol is pretty much what HTTP looked like originally[1]. If you just support an optional "GET " before the document path, you'll essentially have an implementation of HTTP 0.9.

[1] https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html

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Re:WebUSB is dead by anderspitman on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:27PM (#22230009)
Yup. Once I got to the point I was considering adding support for range requests for streaming videos, I figured it would make more sense to implement a subset of HTTP. HTTP started as a pretty dang good protocol and I really hope we never full ditch HTTP/1.1 in favor of the newer binary versions. I'm all for progress, but simple things should remain simple.
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