HTTP

Read-only today

Read-only access to any static file tree a web server publishes.

Live-tested

What Mountit does with it

Mount
Read-only, and labelled read-only in the volume properties
Offline cache
Metadata cache and read-ahead — the same volume stack as every other service, minus the write-back a read-only volume has nothing to do with
Encryption layer
Available on this connection: client-side, rclone-compatible crypt over the data before it leaves your Mac
Editions
Both. Either edition mounts it through File Provider, so it appears in Finder — and, on Standard, in the Files app on iPad and Vision Pro

Limits

What HTTP cannot do, read from the app's own service_traits() — the same answer its connection picker shows before you connect, not a judgement typed onto this page.

Read-only
The volume is labelled read-only in its properties and writes are refused up front, rather than accepted by Finder and lost at the far end.

The engineering ledger lists HTTP among the services run against a real server. Which of those two things it says is read out of docs/BACKEND-COVERAGE.md in the app repository when this site is built, not typed here — so the level above moves when the ledger does, and the build stops rather than leave the paragraph above it saying something else.

The conformance record

Covered by its own live suite. No conformance lane runs against this service; a live test suite of its own in the app repository covers it instead. Every service’s standing, side by side.

HTTP questions

Can Mountit mount HTTP?

Yes — HTTP is one of the 38 services selectable in the app. Today it mounts read-only: the volume properties say so, and writes are refused rather than accepted and lost.

What we will not do is claim it works before it does: this page carries the ledger’s evidence level for HTTP, and it changes the day the evidence does.

Which edition do I need?

Either — this service is in both editions. The difference is the surrounding app, not the protocol: Mountit Pro is the unsandboxed build with the block protocols; Standard is the Mac App Store build, and on iPad and Vision Pro every service appears in the Files app. Both mount this service through File Provider.