jQuery Ajax request from local filesystem (Windows file:///)

Question

I\'m trying to do an ajax request to get the contents of \"http://localhost/\" running on Windows Wamp Server.

The script is running from something like

Answer 1

You say that the script is running from a file:/// URL. It's best not to do AJAX requests from file URLs, because they are treated inconsistently. Chrome, for example, entirely disallows them.

However, your bigger problem here is the same-origin policy: you can only make AJAX requests to the same host as the web page itself. file:/// and http://localhost are not the same host (even if they are the same machine).

It's best to run everything off http://localhost.

Answer 2

This probably won't work, as the browser will think this is a cross-domain request. You've accessed the file via a file:// URL, but are trying to retrieve data from http://localhost. Try accessing your original file from http://localhost as well, and it'll probably start to work.

Answer 3

Problem Solved!

I just had to add this header to my index.php file for http://localhost/

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');

Thanks for your help anyhow guys!