bob-archive should be able to act remotely

[Ferruck]

That's because bob archive only works locally where the artifacts are stored. It's poorly documented in the manpage.

Well, yes, indeed. Is this just because nobody cared to implement a remote bob archive or are there technical reasons?

There was no need yet. Until now it was sufficient to have a cron-job on the artifact server that works locally. Technically it is possible to implement that but it will require the HTTP endpoint to be a WebDAV resource (needs PROPFIND to list the directories). The shell backend might need a ls command too.

Originally posted by @jkloetzke in https://github.com/BobBuildTool/bob/pull/336#issuecomment-635184140