Is it possible to load in a local version of a JavaScript file instead of the server version?

Question

Just had a quick question to throw out and see if there was a solution for this...

Let\'s pretend I have no access to the server. I load up a webpage and find out that t

Answer 1

In a browser that supports FileReader such as Chrome, yes, in combination with 'eval' to execute arbitrary JS. In your HTML add a button for the user to press:

In your scripts add:

function load() {
  var reader = new FileReader();
  reader.onload = function(evt) {
    eval(evt.target.result);
  };
  reader.readAsText(files[0]);
}