Comment on Backlift's Tunnel API: connect to 3rd party APIs without JSONPComments−niutech13yIt'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=' . $_GET['action']); ?>−Stratoscope13yOf 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/−colevscodeOP13yTrue, but then you're writing server code. Our platform is intended to help front-end developers / designers avoid writing server code.
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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=' . $_GET['action']); ?>
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/
True, but then you're writing server code. Our platform is intended to help front-end developers / designers avoid writing server code.