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Katoch
Katoch

Reputation: 2777

XMLHttpRequest - REST from javascript

I am having a webserver running on my localhost. If i load my webpage from my webserver everything works fine. I am able to OPEN a REST session with my webserver.

JS code :--

$(document).ready(function() {

                      var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
                      var open_str = "http://localhost:8080/vscp/rest?user=admin&password=d50c3180375c27927c22e42a379c3f67&format=json&op=1";
                      xhr.open("GET", open_str, true);
                      xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
                                  alert(xhr.readyState + "" + xhr.status);
                        if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) {

                            alert("session opend success");

                            var json = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
                            alert(JSON.stringify(json, null, 10));

                        }
                      }
                      xhr.send();
});

HTML code :--

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Hello jQuery</title>
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
        <script src="hello.js"></script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <div>
            <p class="greeting-id">Trying to open the REST session with vscpd </p>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Now if i load the same html page from my D: drive :--

file:///D:my_folder/htm_test.html

I am getting following error "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present". And i have checked in javascript code that xhr.readyState is 4 and xhr.status is 0.

Please suggest what changes to make to my javascript code so that, if i open the html file directly from my D: drive using file:/// then also REST session is opened correctly with my webserver.

========================= JSONP code ========================

$(document).ready(function() {

                      var url = "http://localhost:8080/vscp/rest?user=admin&password=d50c3180375c27927c22e42a379c3f67&format=json&op=1";

                      function jsonpCallback(response) {

                          alert('success');
                      }

                      $.ajax({
                          url: url,
                          dataType: 'jsonp',
                          error: function(xhr, status, error) {
                                     alert("error" + "  " + error.message);
                          },
                          success: jsonpCallback
                      });
                      return false;
});

Error i get :-- server is sending the right response :-- {"success":true,"code":1,"message":"success","description":"Success","session-id":"e5a36e14b687c37b615dbc6a9506df5c","nEvents":0}

But ajax call giving error for this response i.e "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token :"

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 6432

Answers (2)

codebox
codebox

Reputation: 20264

You have run into the Same Origin Policy - this is a security mechanism that restricts JavaScript loaded from one domain from sending requests to a different domain.

There are various ways around it, if you are using Google Chrome I would suggest setting the --allow-file-access-from-files flag when you start the browser, Firefox also provides a way to work around it, but don't forget to disable these options when you have finished testing, they are there for a good reason!

Upvotes: 4

Noneatme
Noneatme

Reputation: 1

That's because Chrome and some other browsers are blocking the local files for security reasons and I don't think there is a method for resolving this issue. You have to use a webserver.

Upvotes: 0

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