configuration data from a socket?

I am working on the modular version of OmniCheck, and it occurred to me that having the capability to receive your configuration/rules from a network call (be it SOAP or REST or what have you) might be an interesting way to manage a large-scale distribution, if you didn't want to use a 'push' method like rdist or scp, or a traditional pull method like rsync.

This is just a mockup of how this might look:

perl ./omnicheck -F http://omnicheck.ops.aol.com:12345/cgi-bin/get_config.pl?tag=fred-d01.ops.here.com

rules: http://omniheck.ops.aol.com:12345/cgi-bin/get_rules.pl?tag=fred-d01.ops.here.com&block=fuzzy_cat

For this re-implementation, it's just another branch in the read_config and parse_rules methods.

Thoughts?