I embed all html in WKWebView, all works until I recognize that WKWebView cannot load a xml file on the local
$.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "tags.xml", dataType: "xml", cache: false, success: function(xml) { }, error: function() { alert("An error occurred while processing XML file."); } });
my code for UIWebView
//urlFolder is located locally in a temporary file: tmp/www/htmlFolder //urlFile is located in the urlFolder: tmp/www/htmlFolder/index.html //xml file is located in the urlFolder: tmp/www/htmlFolder/tags.xml WKWebViewConfiguration *theConfiguration = [[WKWebViewConfiguration alloc] init]; _webView = [[WKWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame configuration:theConfiguration]; [_webView loadFileURL:urlFile allowingReadAccessToURL:urlFolder]; [self.view addSubview:_webView];
Note: I am using XCode7.1 Beta, Objective-C, ios9.1, WKWebView
From what I could find they disabled cross-origin requests in WKWebViews.
Search for cors or xhr + WKWebView for more information about this issue. I think it must be a bug of some sort, because this has always been possible in 'normal' UIWebViews using local files (like your example).
You can however run a small/lightweight http-server inside your app, which works great for me. Make sure to add an exception to the App Transport Security Settings
in your .plist file for localhost.