Jquery: Running Ajax Locally Without a Webserver

How can I run ajax code without web server?

I m able to run the ajax without webserver the problem was with my code the code written below that i had run on my filesystem u can use that as well.

      function do_the_click(brl)
      {
          alert('inside this method do_the_click');
          alert(brl);
          var request  =     $.ajax({
                    async: false,
                    url: brl, 
                    contentType: "text/html",
                    type : "GET",
                    dataType : "html",                
                });

                request.done(function( msg ) {
                          alert(msg);
                          $( "#contentarea" ).load( msg, function() {
                                    alert( "Load was performed." );
                          });
                });

                request.fail(function( jqXHR, textStatus ) {
                          alert( "Request failed: " + textStatus );
                });

      }

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Loading local files with Javascript without a web server

If you insist on using Chrome, it have some command line flags to allow access to/from local originated files (--allow-file-access-from-files / --disable-web-security). Do note that you need to run entire browser from scratch with those flags - i.e. if there's already any other Chrome windows open flags WON'T have any effect and that effect persists across ALL windows until Chrome is closed, which is, obviously huge hole in security.

You can set up a lightweight local server if you pack your "application" with some kind of automated setup script. This is still not very good, because you'd need to install executable that user might not want or even be completely unable to install due to restrictions.

You can pack your HTML/JS-based app as Chrome extension - extensions have much wider permissions than random code, but then you'd need to either distribute it through Google Play or provide instructions to manually install extensions for your users.

And finally, you can format all the data, including your configuration and text files your mentioned as valid JavaScript code - i.e. pack a story1.txt to story1.js like:

var myapp.story1 = "Complete text of story1.txt"

and then just dynamically select stuff you need from corresponding vars or even use DOM manipulation to only load scripts you need through dynamically adding <script> tags. In my opinion that would be best option because it is less intrusive: it doesn't requires any installation/reconfiguration, it just works out-of-box.

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