Question About ZOHO Creator Data API

Hi:

Can I deploy the REST style of ZOHO Creator Data APIs from a program (something.exe) running on my local machine ?

I ask this question because the Documentation initially states that ...

Zoho Creator provides REST as well RPC style Data APIs that allows external websites to collaborate with Zoho Creator applications, with ease

.... but later illustrates a sample method like this ...

Sample Form

<form method="POST" action="http://creator.zoho.com/api/xml/<application name>/<form name>/add/apikey=[APIKEY] &ticket=[Ticket]">

<input type="text" name=" Column Name " value=" Column Value ">
<input type="text" name=" Column Name " value=" Column Value ">

<input type="submit" value="Submit XML String">

</form>

I use a Desktop Application Builder that allows me to write commands for communicating with websites using the Internet Get and Post methods ... and I would like to deploy such a program to exchange data between Forms in my Workspace and files on my local disk.

Can someone at ZOHO Support advise me if this is possible ? ... i.e. is there anything that prevents me from making the API calls from a client work station (as opposed to another website/server) ?

Gaev