Executing a JavaScript file directly from the browser

Question

This sounds like a trivia question but I really need to know.

If you put the URL of an HTML file in the Location bar of your browser, it will render that HTML. That\'s

Answer 1

Not directly, but you could make a simple server-side script, e.g. in PHP. Instead of

http://example.com/file.js

, navigate to:

http://localhost/execute_script.php?url=http://example.com/file.js

Of course, you could smallen this by using RewriteRule in Apache, and/or adding another entry in your hosts file that redirects to 127.0.0.1.

Note that this is not great in terms of security, but if you use it yourself and know what you're downloading, you should be fine.