title: Using AJAX to read from local filesystem without a web server
body: <p>I tried doing this in a script tag of an HTML file, just to see if I could get it to work somehow:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script&gt;
  
      var file = '/Users/amills001c/suman/test/output/test1.txt';
  
      $.get(file);
  
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I got an error, as expected:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>XMLHttpRequest cannot load
    file:///Users/amills001c/suman/test/output/test1.txt.
    Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http,
    data, chrome, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>so my question is, is there any way to use AJAX to request files from the local filesystem without having a web server in place?</p>
  
  <p>It seems <em>possible</em>, but sounds like I need to do some configuration. This is only for a local file and running a browser on my local workstation.</p>