# SoundCloud mobile - Proxies

DevFeed: [SoundCloud mobile - Proxies](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/soundcloud-mobile-proxies-2151.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//soundcloud-mobile-proxies>)

Published: 2011-08-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [node](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/node.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud describes a mountable proxy for its mobile web application, designed to route API requests through a reserved path and avoid CORS and cross-origin XHR limitations. It outlines an Nginx-based implementation using proxy and rewrite rules.

## Source excerpt

The Problem The mobile version of SoundCloud is a consumer of our own API dog food. That decision was made with the intention to deploy a...