How to read a local text file?

Question

I’m trying to write a simple text file reader by creating a function that takes in the file’s path and converts each line of text into a char array, but it’s not working.

Answer 1

Local AJAX calls in Chrome are not supported due to same-origin-policy.

Error message on chrome is like this: "Cross origin requests are not supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https."

This means that chrome creates a virtual disk for every domain to keep the files served by the domain using http/https protocols. Any access to files outside this virtual disk are restricted under same origin policy. AJAX requests and responses happen on http/https, therefore wont work for local files.

Firefox does not put such restriction, therefore your code will work happily on the Firefox. However there are workarounds for chrome too : see here.