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[Question] Client-side api requests?

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Furlqt
#1 - July 5, 2011, 6:55 p.m.
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Hi,

I am in the process of developing an application that would not have any reason to use a server for Community Platform API polling--any requests would be done by clients' user agents.

This application would probably only do 20-25 polls per client, and that's on the larger side. Nevertheless, since the current system of registration, I believe, relies on having static IPs and a hidden private key, would there be any way to register this HTML5/JavaScript application? Or would I just rest in the intrinsic immunity of a distributed application from polling limitations and leave it at that?
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Straton
Web & Mobile Team
#2 - July 5, 2011, 7 p.m.
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In this case, I don't think you have anything to worry about. If you plan on using the JSONP feature to embed the API calls as script tags, the "application" making the request is the browser. So even if you had 50k people using the application, they would all be represented as separate consumers of the API.