On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:51 AM, hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote:

HTTP is technically different and not easily comparable to 9p. HTTP is
not a good example of how to do things, but over high-latency links 9p
is much slower for getting files.

HTTP tries to be stateless as well. Hence REST. 9p is a fairly stateful protocol.

... but then so is NFSv4, and 9p remains simpler.

There's also pi-P documented somewhere that takes the ideas of 9p and makes them more applicable to the space where http is interesting, as well as others.

Dave