jQuery Ajax request from local filesystem (Windows file:///)

Question

I\'m trying to do an ajax request to get the contents of \"http://localhost/\" running on Windows Wamp Server.

The script is running from something like

Answer 1

This probably won't work, as the browser will think this is a cross-domain request. You've accessed the file via a file:// URL, but are trying to retrieve data from http://localhost. Try accessing your original file from http://localhost as well, and it'll probably start to work.