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Re: Cross-Origin Request Blocked

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Cross-Origin Request Blocked
Date 2022-07-21 11:24 +0100
Organization A little, after lunch
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On 21/07/2022 10:18, Arno Welzel wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
Well yes, semantics is one thing, bits in silicon is another.

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Cross-Origin Request Blocked emf <emfril@gmail.com> - 2022-07-19 17:46 -0400
  Re: Cross-Origin Request Blocked Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2022-07-20 01:34 +0200
    Re: Cross-Origin Request Blocked The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-20 12:18 +0100
      Re: Cross-Origin Request Blocked Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2022-07-21 11:18 +0200
        Re: Cross-Origin Request Blocked The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2022-07-21 11:24 +0100
  Re: Cross-Origin Request Blocked Ezimene nimi Teine nimi <techfan55555@hotmail.com> - 2023-03-06 03:27 -0800

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