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Hmm. It's not clear from your documentation, is it possible to use xmlhttprequest through the web workers and get the response?

Because having thousands of systems as distributed web crawlers would be really really cool.

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It's not possible, sorry. It's possible if you ask us to access a certain address, but to the outside world it's not allowed. It would be pretty cool to have distributed web crawlers but it would also be extremely dangerous if someone decided to use CrowdProcess to do a DDoS.

Seems like that could be handled by your API, if you throttle requests by request domain. But, no worries, just curious.

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