Javascript Read Text File Offline

Question

Currently I use this code to read a txt file with words and perform some operations. However, this particular code requires the html to be deployed on a server. Is there any workaround where I can replace this code with something else to read the file without the need of a server?

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); 
xhr.open( "GET", "dictionary.txt", false );
xhr.send( null );
var words= xhr.responseText.split(",");

Answer 1

It is NOT possible to call Ajax outside your server domain (except you use scriptagproxy, that too requires you to have some server side configuration). So, in short, you CANNOT read files on your local computer using Ajax calls.

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