“Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin” error for request made by application running from a file:// URL

Question

I\'m developing a page that pulls images from Flickr and Panoramio via jQuery\'s AJAX support.

The Flickr side is working fine, but when I try to $.get(url, ca

Answer 1

If you are doing local testing or calling the file from something like file:// then you need to disable browser security.

On MAC: open -a Google\ Chrome --args --disable-web-security