560488 - too strict security policy: reading web page from local JS file results with "access to restricted URI denied, code: 1012, nsresult: NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 465397

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[macias]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.5.22 Version/10.51
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I wrote a JS script which retrieves various web pages and show them in one page. It works OK in Konqueror for example, but in Firefox due to security policy I am getting the error as above.

Such policy is needed when executing JS script fetched from local server, but in my case it is a local file opened directly by Firefox. So in such case I should be able to read anything I would like.

The code is pretty straightforward:

req.open("GET", web_page_address, false);
req.send("");

req is XMLHttpRequest object.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is a security decision by design. See http://ejohn.org/blog/tightened-local-file-security/ and bug 230606.

Comment 2

[macias]

Thank you for the comment but what is the relevance of the linked materials and this case?

Other report: local file -> another local file
This report: local file -> external web server

On one hand it is external web server job to protect its data, and on the other hand it is valid to get the available data.

Comment 3

[macias]

Reopening then.