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mheavers
mheavers

Reputation: 30158

jquery - load XML file from local file system without cross domain errors

I'm trying to set up a website to run on the local file system and call an XML file, but I'm getting access control origin errors:

Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

I've tried switching the datatype to jsonp and setting crossdomain to true:

$j.ajax({
            crossdomain: true,
            url: 'xml/vehicles.xml',
            dataType: "jsonp",      
            success: function( vehicleXML ) {
                supertree.parseVehicles($j(vehicleXML).find("vehicles"), null);
                supertree.vehiclesLoaded = true;
                if(supertree.scenesLoaded) supertree.ready();
            }
        });

But it doesn't work. Any idea on how to accomplish this? Preferably without a proxy?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2070

Answers (1)

epascarello
epascarello

Reputation: 207501

Same origin policy prevents you have accessing the data. Either the server you are requesting data from needs to enable CORS or you need to use a proxy on your server to get the data from the other server.

Other option is to change the XML data into a JSONP format. It is not as easy as telling jQuery to make a JSONP request. The data formats are totally different and the server has to return that format, the JavaScript cannot do anything about it.

Upvotes: 2

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