Comment by slrz

I don't think this is doing any HTTP. Autofs is generally used to mount remote file systems like NFS shares.

It's pretty common on Unix-like systems (especially in multi-user environments) and not at all specific to macOS.

References:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/autofs

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=autofs&sektion=5

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...