I'm working on a very odd sort of project that involves having users create "settings" files for a third party program that will use HTTP to fetch these settings.

I'm considering treating each setting file as a content item, using CCK to add the necessary fields to the content type so that they can change all of their settings.

Is there a way to fetch this data via HTTP? Any kind of module that enables clean HTTP requests of content fields? I've Googled but haven't found much.