Chrome and --allow-file-access-from-files

Question

I have a jquery/AJAX sign in page that works perfectly in all browsers except Chrome. It seems I have bumped into an issue in Chrome which is covered at Problems with jQuery ge

Answer 1

This should only a problem if you are trying to use Chrome to load files from your local file system. This is because Chrome has a insanely restrictive AJAX policies on the filesystem.

Essentially, Chrome does not allow AJAX requests to files outside the html page's folder. To fix this, just serve your files from a web server. Your site visitors are probably going to access your site through a web server anyway, so this should not be a problem to them.

Answer 2

Don't use that flag. You're opening your machine or your users machines to attacks. Instead run a local server. It's as easy as opening a shell/terminal/commandline and typing

cd path/to/files
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Then pointing your browser to

http://localhost:8000

If you find it's too slow consider this solution