feat: Quadratic Hosted CORS proxy & improved Python API requests overall

[davidkircos]

Create a cors proxy and Python Lib to access it that mimics 'requests'.

This will make it much easier to fetch data

• [ ] Secrets added at proxy level?

[lucasew]

Well, CORS has a reason to exist.

That would allow some abuses, and bandwidth for arbitrary data is not so cacheable and cheap to host.

Here is an alternative: https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere

[davidkircos]

Nice, thanks for sharing cors-anywhere.

We will add user auth and rate limiting on the CORs proxy to combat abuse.

[davidkircos]

https://github.com/koenvo/pyodide-http

We can also document this in the meantime and maybe install it by default

[luke-quadratic]

closed by #904 (reopen in future if we wanna add custom support for libraries, for now, requests works great!)

[ddimaria]

We now load pyodide-http by default. Is there more work to do on this @luke-quadratic @davidkircos?