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MTTP

About

HTTP is somewhat heavy for some purposes. Gemini and Gopher provide alternatives. This project aims to be a light-weight internal protocol with these features:

visual rich
content and traffic light
suitable for terminal UI
suitable for API documentation
support navigation and search

Concept

Status

This project is still in the concept stage, but the aim is clear. To implement this idea, there will be several stages:

Stage 1

Serve MTTP format (text only) in HTML so that normal web browser can be used as clients.

Stage 2

Serve MTTP format (text only) to client, which will render graphically.

Stage 3

Support non-text content

Stage 4

Support user input, mainly search

Syntax

Example