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Overwhelmingly terrible idea. Routing your web site traffic through an entirely unknown third party server. Overwrite the global XMLHttpRequest object.

Please tell me this is a joke to show off terrible security practise?

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Regrading overwriting XMLHttpRequest, if it works - it works, and if it breaks it can be improved, this is why it is open source. It does not reroute your site traffic just your cross-origin site traffic, which practically does not exist without this library. Yes it can be used to do bad thing but also opens up the opportunity for mashups, external content integration, api calls and more.

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