Thank you @hrishikesh … what is a proxy rewrite though?
I looked at the Netlify docs and I got this:
Proxy to another service
Similar to how you can rewrite paths like /* to /index.html , you can also set up rules to let parts of your site proxy to external services. Let’s say you need to communicate from a single-page app with an API on https://api.example.com that doesn’t support CORS requests. The following rule will let you use /api/ from your JavaScript client:
/api/* https://api.example.com/:splat 200
Now all requests to /api/... will be proxied through to https://api.example.com straight from our CDN servers without an additional connection from the browser. If the API supports standard HTTP caching mechanisms like ETags or Last-Modified headers, the responses will even get cached by our CDN nodes.
Is this essentially the same as you’ve just described in your example there @hrishikesh ?
Thanks for your help 