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chokito76
chokito76

Reputation: 93

file access from javascript code

I'm trying to access a text file using javascript code, but I keep receiving a security error message. What I'm trying to do is:

var file = File('path/filename.txt');

The path is relative to the script location. I found that running from local machine could be the reason for that, so I tried to run from my local webserver but the error is still there. Does someone know why? What can I do to load this text file? If possible, considering that it is always under the script path, could it be also loaded from local disk (no web server)?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 146

Answers (2)

user1864610
user1864610

Reputation:

Your snippet will attempt to load the file from your local file system, so can't retrieve a file from a server. You'd need to look at requestFileSystem or FileReader to make something like this work if the file is local.

Alternatively, you could use AJAX to retrieve the file from a server.

Upvotes: 0

Laurent S.
Laurent S.

Reputation: 6947

If you're trying to access a file on the server, you should do it using a server side coding language like PhP. If you're trying to access a client file (= a file on the computer of your website visitor), it's not possible for obvious security reasons [EDIT] Thanks to Colin DeClue , I discovered this is possible using the HTML5 File API. An article explaining this is available here : http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/

Upvotes: 1

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