Hi Arjan (cc to the list),
But then it is also not possible to start-up some existing server side script that way?
I've added another idea to the reopened GitHub issue [1]: we could extend the "run" operation [2] to also support command scripts.
Christian
[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/559 [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/REST#Operations