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The Natural Philosopher:

> On 20/07/2022 00:34, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> emf:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> I have on my computer a program that reads a local text file. It
>>> used to work OK but now it doesn't and the Web Developer Tools
>>> of Firefox says:
>>>
>>> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows
>>> reading the remote resource at file:///C:/...
>>>
>>> Is there any work-around?
>>
>> No.
>>
> I wouldn't be as categorically sure as all that.
> I can think of at least one way.
> 
> Construct a minimal web server on the local machine and access it via ajax.

For this you need Node.js:

<https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_createserver_options_requestlistener>

Or setup Apache2 or Nginx.

I'm not sure if I'd call this a "workaround". To me this seems to be a
completely different approach - don't access locally but using a webserver.


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Arno Welzel
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