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Backlift's Tunnel API: connect to 3rd party APIs without JSONP

• niutech 13y ago
  It's just a proxy, you could do the same with a single line of PHP, e.g.: <?php readfile('http://api.example.org/?key=APIKEY&action=' http://api.example.org/?key=APIKEY&action=' . $_GET['action']); ?>
  • Stratoscope 13y ago
    Of course, or a line or two of just about any server language. But someone using using Backlift as their server wouldn't have that option; this API is for them. http://backlift.github.io/docs/ http://backlift.github.io/docs/
  • colevscode 13y ago
    True, but then you're writing server code. Our platform is intended to help front-end developers / designers avoid writing server code.
• riskable 13y ago
  It's sort of like http://getr.ws/ http://getr.ws/ but bound to a specific application platform.
• MichaelGG 13y ago
  This article would be easier to read if it started off with a quick overview of Tunnel (creates a path in your app that proxies to another site), rather than the how-to. A couple of sentences in the first paragraph would do it.
• spullara 13y ago
  You can use YQL for this and many, many other operations that you would normally not be able to easily do on the client. It is free, deployed in 5+ datacenters worldwide, will cache both directions, and widely used by Yahoo so very unlikely to be turned off. It even offers persistent storage. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/