Accessing relative URL's via “ajax” from “file://” content

Question

I\'m putting together some demo pages, and one of the things I want to demonstrate involves fetching HTML fragments dynamically with subsequent processing. Thus I\'ve got si

Answer 1

Had the same issue in Safari+Firefox:

The alert in code below does not run:

$.getScript('script.js', function () { alert("Script loaded and executed."); })

Loading an external file instead of script.js will run.

Answer 2

You can add --allow-file-access-from-files to the command line when launching chrome to disable this security feature :)

Is it a bug? Maybe, maybe not, what's happening is it's not treating file:// as a single domain, requests to a different file are treated as a different domain and therefore blocked by the SOP rules. It's a choice by the Chrome/Chromium developers, whether it's the correct one depends on your point of view I suppose.

There's a lot of dicusssion on this in the Chrome issues section on Google code, you may find the discussion of interest, here and here.