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Yeah, having the metadata available over an http interface is actually brilliant. Simple HTTP calls are easy to do from any network-capable OS or language.

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So is reading a file on the filesystem.. easier, actually in most languages, since HTTP requests usually require loading an extra library.

A library which uses the same (built-in) underlying IO mechanisms as the (built-in) filesystem.

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