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Asked: 2026-05-20T23:42:23+00:00

Is it possible to set up Firefox to allow JSON/Ajax calls to my server

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Is it possible to set up Firefox to allow JSON/Ajax calls to my server
from a client html page loaded using the file:// protocol??

I am building a phonegap application which is loading web pages using
the file:// protocol and therefore XSS/XDS sandboxing rules don’t
apply. This is cool! Unfortunately, I can only get this to work from
my Android Emulator (see below for setup). It does NOT work under
Firefox running on my Vista client machine. This is disappointing
because I have grown used to using Firebug on the client to debug my
application.

FYI, The following setup works fine (but doesn’t allow Firefox/Firebug
debugging)…

Server: Ubuntu running on Virtual Box, Eth0 in Bridged mode, node.js
returning a JSON messages)
Development (Host) Machine: Windows Vista running Eclipse with Android
SDK and Phonegap stuff loaded
Client: Application (.apk) deployed to the standard Android Emulator

Edit: I eventually gave up on this and used JSONP :/

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  1. Editorial Team

    I know you like Firefox but you could try Safari on Windows since it allows cross domain from file:// and it has good tools in the form of web inspector.

    You could also try Sleight (https://github.com/alunny/sleight). which is a very simple proxy written in NodeJS specifically for PhoneGap.

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