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

Syntax

Example