title: Can XHR load local files (file:///) if the page itself is loaded as a local file (file:///)?
body: <p>There is a small web app that I want to scrape. It loads various json snippets into a panel on the page when you click on a tree widget. I estimate that there are no fewer than about 500 such json files. I've managed to figure out how to grab those, and I was hoping that I could simply place those in the appropriate folder and the xhr calls would retrieve them.</p>
  
  <p>As it is, I receive this particular error message when clicking on my offline version of the webapp:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>XMLHttpRequest cannot load
    file:///json/ajaxbrowse.php?n=5&amp;x=1&amp;z=-1&amp;cs=1&amp;ix=-1. Cross origin
    requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome,
    chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Is there a way to accomplish the loading of external files here without a web app (or disabling Chrome security features)? The html file and the json files live in the same folder. Given their format (json), I can't easily load these into iframes.</p>
  
  <p>Googling's not showing me much for this, and I'm not sure what javascript/browser feature I might be searching for.</p>