Date: 2025-03-01 Updated: 2025-03-03

Why to use NEX protocol

NEX is the simplest available protocol to get any content from
the internet and the simplest one to share content over internet.
One can write few lines of shell script to have fully usable and safe
NEX server. In a hurry, the whole server can be extremely simple if
inetd or something capable listens on port 1900 and call your script.

#!/bin/sh
read request; cat /var/nex/$request 

That will serve any file, that a user requests over port 1900. This is
just an example how NEX protocol is simple. The above "server" is not
safe as it does not protect against directory traversal. So the above
one line script really serves almost any file that is world readable
in your system.

One can use just netcat or some web proxy as a client.

; echo 052 | nc morena.rip 1900

Look at that. Server and client in your control. There are already few
NEX servers, clients or a web proxy available.

You get content, you can share content. You can serve any file type,
your content can be in a format you wish. No matter how big a line,
what encoding you use, no special files, no bullshit. No restrictions,
just freedom to show what is inside you.

Freedom

If you give a person freedom, then you can see who he truly is. What
he will create, how he will shape it, how much he will care about it,
how long it will last. You can know much more about someone who is
free to do anything. If you however bound him by restrictions, give
him rules, he can happily use it, he can use it forcefully with
distaste. You can't know as his actions are hindered. But if you give
him freedom, which means huge, empty, free space, then his
intelligence can flourish through his own creativity. He will be able
to demonstrate something of who he is.

Do not remain bound by shackles in the dungeon, because some engineers
were paid to create some technology standards 25 years ago. Don't jump
into next prison just because someone bound in the past made something
even worse, just with new shiny furniture.

Let's be free my beloved kind.

When freedom is present, creativity and intelligence thrive.