Run a Http server in background. Receive Http post and get events.
It's been a hard thing to transmit messages from one device to another. Such as simple sending a long text message from a computer to a android phone.
Using the Join to share clipboard requires connecting to Internet and exposing your content go Google.
Using Chat softwares has much much limitation.
Even if our devices are under same wifi network, it's hard for us to send a simple message from one device to another.
So, if Tasker can run a background http server, when there is a http post or http get sent to this server, tasker can triger an event, and run some tasks according to the http post data, such as coping the data, responsing the phones clipboard to the http get request.
Or we can even transmit files by transmiting the file using base64 code directly between two phone.