Trouble-shooting CORS in Play Framework 2.4.x

Question

I have a java play framework 2.4.x web app providing a JSON/HTTP API. When I run my front-end HTML/JS file:///Users/nize/tmp/index.html calling the API on

Answer 1

Does it work in Firefox? Chrome has some restrictions on running Ajax from local files, e.g., see this link. If it is Chrome-specific, you can start up Chrome with a command-line switch to remove the restriction.