“Not allowed to load local resource: file:///C:…jpg” Java EE Tomcat

Question

I\'m trying to retrieve a picture from my file system after a good storage,(instead of putting it in the database I copy it to the disc and i put the path to the db)

Answer 1

In Chrome, you are supposed to be able to allow this capability with a runtime flag --allow-file-access-from-files

However, it looks like there is a problem with current versions of Chrome (37, 38) where this doesn't work unless you also pass the runtime flag --disable-web-security

That's an unacceptable solution, except perhaps as a short-term workaround, but it has been identified as an issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=379206