Link and execute external JavaScript file hosted on GitHub

Question

When I try to change the linked reference of a local JavaScript file to a GitHub raw version my test file stops working. The error is:

Refused to exe

Answer 1

raw.github.com is not truely raw access to file asset, but a view rendered by Rails. So accessing raw.github.com is much heavier than needed. I don't know why raw.github.com is implemented as a Rails view. Instead of fix this route issue, GitHub added a X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header.

Workaround:

• Put the script to user.github.io/repo
• Use a third party CDN like rawgit.com.