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I've found that REST Upload/Delete feels worse than FTP, or other similar protocols with like 45+ years of tool development.

There was once a HTTP standard called WebDav IIRC but it seems rarely implemented. Why haven't these sites tried that direction if they wanted HTTP-Backed security measures?

Upload/Delete as REST is usable though.

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> ...There was once a HTTP standard called WebDav IIRC but it seems rarely implemented...

WebDAV is still a valid thing, and used quite more often than most people know. Its not known because it lives deeply embedded within apps and systems, and not something that is often visible to users. Case in point, a little thing called Google Drive makes use of WebDAV, so does NextCloud, etc.

WebDAV's not dead yet! (With apologies to Monty Python. ;-)

Neocities has WebDAV support, but it's limited to paid subscribers only (it's billed mainly as a way for you to "mount your Neocities [site]" as a virtual drive), and it's got a lot of the same annoyances that afflicts more or less every REST and quasi-REST service (where you have to tickle some URL over here in order to effect some resource over there).

I became a paid subscriber specifically to use their WebDAV features. I almost immediately unsubscribed as, at the time, I could not find a viable WebDAV client. I simply don't believe that this entire ecosystem supports it.

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