Question

the following code works fine on Safari.

On Chrome, it fails due to:

"XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///Users/jem/Sites/AA/data/articles.csv. Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin."

What does this mean? How can I properly read this file using a synchronous call?

function(file) {

    var content;

    $.ajax({
        url : file,
        success : function (data) {
            content = data.split(/\r\n|\n/);

        },
        async: false
    });

    return content;
}

Answer 1

The problem is that chrome does not allow you to load files from your local system by default using ajax. This is a security setting.

Start Chrome using the –allow-file-access-from-files parameter to skip this security check.

chrome.exe –allow-file-access-from-files