This section describes how to develop applications using the Swarm Simple Content Storage Protocol (SCSP), the mechanism that applications use to communicate with Swarm. SCSP is a text-based protocol based on the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 1.1 standard. Using this section it is possible to:

• Create an application that connects to a storage cluster.

• Implement advanced HTTP features for improved performance.

• Map SCSP methods to HTTP methods.

• Implement erasure coding in large or unknown-length objects.

• Implement SCSP methods, such as READ, WRITE, and DELETE.

• Manually create or rename a domain when the cluster administrator is not available.