How to launch html using Chrome at “–allow-file-access-from-files” mode?

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That flag is dangerous!! Leaves your file system open for access. Documents originating from anywhere, local or web, should not, by default, have any access to local file:/// resources.

Much better solution is to run a little http server locally.

— For Windows —

The easiest is to install http-server globally using node’s package manager:

npm install -g http-server

Then simply run http-server in any of your project directories:

Eg. d:\my_project> http-server

Starting up http-server, serving ./
Available on:
 http:169.254.116.232:8080
 http:192.168.88.1:8080
 http:192.168.0.7:8080
 http:127.0.0.1:8080
Hit CTRL-C to stop the server

Or as prusswan suggested, you can also install Python under windows, and follow the instructions below.

— For Linux —

Since Python is usually available in most linux distributions, just run python -m SimpleHTTPServer in your project directory, and you can load your page on http://localhost:8000

In Python 3 the SimpleHTTPServer module has been merged into http.server, so the new command is python3 -m http.server.

Easy, and no security risk of accidentally leaving your browser open vulnerable.

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