Re: CORS Proxy

[pruned to: list, added CORS-enabled folks I know]

Hi Henry,

Thanks for putting this service online (in the form of source code)
and also to the folks over at data.fm for making it actually available
as a publicly callable service. Services like YQL allow you to turn
any website in a JSON-P API, which—while less elegant—in practice
serves the same purpose as CORS: "overcome" the SOP. I have used YQL
widely in some of my Linked Data apps, however, always have hit the
call limit per time unit. Even on my private hosted server (1&1, so a
hoster with a name), where I used to host a PHP proxy, I have hit some
of their DDoS triggers, so after a while started returning 500 errors.

Do you have a solution or view to/on that issue? It is in my humble
opinion one of the main stumble stones to all that beautiful Linked
Data tales. As soon as you seriously stat to follow the links, the
infrastructure goes down (per security design).

Looking forward to some opinions, and sorry if this sounds too
negative or unrelated to your service announcement. I _appreciate_ any
and all efforts towards enable-cors.org!

Best,
Tom

Thank God not sent from a BlackBerry, but from my iPhone

Received on Friday, 6 July 2012 23:57:10 UTC