Oh what I meant is that the language / programming environment where I want to build a relay doesn't support websockets at all. Basic HTTP only.
I was intrigued to see you say that ws wasn't a relay requirement, as I always saw that it is.
I implemented it on mine: https://github.com/zapstore/ftsrelay , should be pretty simple to do it on other relays
Discussion
Isn't websockets and HTTP the very minimum needed to get stuff from relays?
I suppose it's just a client minimum.
If you had a relay that accepted requests from carrier pigeons and responded appropriately, then your client would just need to know how to talk to the carrier pigeons.
All of our clients assume websockets (and HTTP) right now.
Train them so nostr peep be like.
"Send a crow"
-Game of thrones"