Chrome getUserMedia Not Requesting Permission Locally

Question

I\'m attempting to play around with navigator.getUserMedia in Chrome; however, it is not requesting permission when served locally (file:///whatever/index.html), but does on

Answer 1

Chrome blocks a lot of stuff on file:/// URIs without reporting a security error (eg. Geolocation). Your best option is to run from a local webserver, if you have Python installed try SimpleHTTPServer.