My web application requires downloading content from the user URL specified. Currently this request go through my server, which is inefficient and could get my server IP blocked.
Is there a way to let the user download the URL content directly? The same-origin policy seems to prevent using AJAX or an iframe to download and reuse this content.
Any ideas? For example is there a way via flash to download and reuse URL content?
If it's a specific web side, I recommend to talk to the website operators rather than trying to crawl anonymously.