Loading local content through XHR in a Chrome packaged app

Question

I\'m trying to load in a web app that I\'ve built using Backbone and it pulls in JSON and HTML template files that are stored locally. I was wondering with Chrome packaged a

Answer 1

You are making a request from a sandboxed page, and sandboxed pages have a null origin.

I have posted this issue question on the Google Group.

Unless Chrome decides to changed the sandbox policy, it appears the only workaround is to make XHR requests from a non-sandboxed page and use Chrome's message passing API to give it to your sandboxed page.

I don't know why it has to be so difficult.

EDIT:

The answer from the Chrome Team was to change the CORS header to *.