About three years ago I implemented the myhttp engine. It is one of about three engines I wrote for 4.1 that I never made public.If you have seen the example I gave at Google a couple of years ago, ha_giggle, this is the engine that it was based on (and it was the base for Mark's AWS Engine as well). Its a very basic engine that implements SELECT, INSERT, and DELETE... or as we call them in the web sphere, PUT, GET, and DELETE.Just as an example you can do the following:mysql> CREATE TABLE `d` (`a` varchar(125), b text, primary key(a)) ENGINE=HTTP DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 CONNECTION=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ";What can you do from this? You can SELECT pages from wikipedia :)For INSERT to work you need a webserver that support PUT (and of course DELETE for DELETE). There is an Apache module for 1.3 but none exists for the 2.X servers. I've got a hacked up Apache module for this that I wrote years ago, but I would need to clean it up a lot before I would make it public.You can find the announcement for it here:And you can download it from:If you find this sort of thing interesting I am teaching a three hour tutorial at the MySQL User's Conference in a couple of weeks, and I am doing a shorter 45 minute session on the very basics covering our pluggable API . More information here: