TensorFlow Hub supports HTTP based distribution of modules. In particular the protocol allows to use the URL identifying the module both as the documentation of the module and the endpoint to fetch the module.
When a URL such as https://example.com/module is used to identify a
module to load or instantiate, the module resolver will attempt to
download a compressed tar ball from the URL after appending a query
parameter ?tf-hub-format=compressed.
The query param is to be interpreted as a comma separated list of the module formats that the client is interested in. For now only the "compressed" format is defined.
The compressed format indicates that the client expects a tar.gz
archive with the module contents. The root of the archive is the root
of the module directory and should contain a module e.g.:
# Create a compressed module from an exported module directory.
$ tar -cz -f module.tar.gz --owner=0 --group=0 -C /tmp/export-module/ .
# Inspect files inside a compressed module
$ tar -tf module.tar.gz
./
./tfhub_module.pb
./variables/
./variables/variables.data-00000-of-00001
./variables/variables.index
./assets/
./saved_model.pb