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I know that users can send data to Solana Programs and retrieve data from Solana Programs. I am curious if we are able to make network calls inside Solana Programs. Assume a user interacted with program and sent a required data to call an API. Let's say user sent string "California". Can we make a network call to a weather API and return weather data?

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  • By the way I'm aware weather example is irrelevant and there is no point of doing that. It is just an example to solidify what I am trying to ask.
    – curiosity
    Commented Jul 17, 2022 at 14:52

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No. It is impossible to do IO tasks like network requests deterministically. There are many ways that the behavior of the request could change from one validator to another

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