Given a lot of the time when exploring data visualisations you end up downloading some data from various urls and publishing somewhere else, such as a db or gist, in order to handle CORS restrictions, it would be super useful if observable servers could proxy requests under certain conditions. Obvio…

Yes, this is a potential future feature that we’re thinking about. There are an absolute armada of fully public data sets and sources out there that don’t have CORS configured, but are served publicly, without authentication. Using a mechanism like Secrets — where the author defines the Host that …

Suggestion: proxy calls to private-per-user-per-notebook whitelisted urls

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Suggestion: proxy calls to private-per-user-per-notebook whitelisted urls

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