SpoutDev/Spout — Issue #1702: HTTP downloading of custom content
Author: Darkhand81
Created: 2012-03-05 23:17:04+00:00
State: open

The Source engine offers the ability for clients to download custom content from an alternate HTTP server, to free the game server from having to use bandwidth to send content to every player (sv_downloadurl). With Minecraft's already heavy bandwidth load, this feature would be invaluable.