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i'm a bit new to JQuery and ajax, so i apologize if this is a newbie's question. I'm trying to use ajax from a local file to access the web (for example, getting a text file). I'm not using IIS or anything, simple file from my hard drive (and i need it to stay that way). Checked it on both IE8 and Chrome (version 11.0.696.60). Here's some javascript to illustrate: // use ajax to load from the web $("#webText").click(function(){ $.get("http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/demo_ajax_load.txt", function(result){ alert(result); }); This code is trying to load a text file from the web - the operation fails on both IE and chrome (won't get to get to the success function). Chrome's notifies in the error console about "XmlHttpRequest cannot load _http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/demo_ajax_load.txt: Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin" // use ajax to load from a local file $("#localText").click(function(){ $.get("demo_ajax_load.txt", function(result){ alert(result); }); This code is trying to load from a local text file. IE: the operation succeeds. Chrome: fails with same error as above. At this point i thought it was impossible to communicate with the web from a local file, but then i came across a similar question: XmlHttpRequest error: Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin Using the examples given there, I tried: // use ajax to load json object from the web $("#webJSON").click(function(){ var url = 'http://www.panoramio.com/wapi/data/get_photos?v=1&key=dummykey&tag=test&offset=0&length=20&minx=-30&miny=0&maxx=0&maxy=150'; $.get(url, function(json) { alert(json.photos[1].pho

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