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Hi, I have a noob question. I am just building a browser registration flow and I was wondering about the following:
• Is the frontend supposed to be able to send requests to Kratos directly (for example when initiating a flow, or updating a flow with a form submission) *OR*
• should Kratos always be in a private network behind the web server and all flow requests/responses should go through the web server? (I would assume that this is more secure)
Many thanks in advance.

I ended up with the first option. I think that is how it's meant to be used as depicted in the diagram at <https://www.ory.sh/docs/getting-started/integrate-auth/react>