How to enable loading local file using ajax in IE9

javascript ajax xmlhttprequest internet-explorer-9 local-files
user1589188 picture user1589188 · Aug 10, 2012 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I know there is the origin problem, but setting up a web server is not an option here. Firefox v14 has no problem loading a local file. Chrome has no problem after adding '--allow-file-access-from-files' Is there any way to fix also IE9? Thank you

Edit: I figured out the solution. Just use ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0") instead of XMLHttpRequest() for IE9 to overcome the local file access deny problem.

Answer

Robin Maben picture Robin Maben · Aug 10, 2012

Ajax or not. HTTP is a client-server application protocol. Without a server, that's just not possible.

UPDATE:

Possible in chrome (and firefox) apparently. As for IE you can read up on Mark of the Web.

Related questions

How can I upload files asynchronously?

I would like to upload a file asynchronously with jQuery. Instead of the file being uploaded, I am only getting the filename. What can I do to fix this problem?

Read More
Send POST data using XMLHttpRequest

I'd like to send some data using an XMLHttpRequest in JavaScript. Say I have the following form in HTML: <form name="inputform" action="somewhere" method="post"> <input type="hidden" value="person" name="user"> <input type="…

Read More
Origin is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin

I'm making an Ajax.request to a remote PHP server in a Sencha Touch 2 application (wrapped in PhoneGap). The response from the server is the following: XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://nqatalog.negroesquisso.pt/login.php. Origin http://localhost:8888 is not …

Read More