Allow Google Chrome to use XMLHttpRequest to load a URL from a local file

Question

When trying to do a HTTP request using XMLHttpRequest from a local file, it basically fails due to Access-Control-Allow-Origin violation.

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Answer 1

On Ubuntu:

chromium-browser --disable-web-security

For more details/switches:

http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

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