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Content Distribution Networks (CDNs)

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Hold off on using CDN URLs until

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is implemented. Otherwise it becomes a problem when you are attempting to work on uPortal or do demos in offline mode.

Some popular libraries are hosted on CDNs.  To decrease load times (browser accesses a different domain) and potentially improve performance (a different application may have downloaded the JS library from the CDN and have it in the browser's cache), a CDN can be used instead of obtaining the library from the Resource Server.  The CDN must support HTTPS to access the library so user's don't get security warnings.

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