Reorganizing a project I rewrote a part that previously included a source file via a script file to include it via XMLHttpRequest and BOOM, my code suddenly imploded on Chrome during local testing.<\/p>\n
What’s so bad about it is that it imploded with a cryptic error message “XMLHttpRequest Exception 101” which means a NETWORK_ERR has occured(a fairly broad error state that basically covers everything that has to do with loading).<\/p>\n
I figured that this could be a security restriction and was able to find the appropriate bug #37586<\/a>, but really: you don’t want to have your developers jumping through such hoops just to find out what an error message means. A simple error description such as “Security Error: Document may not request data from file:\/\/ protocol” would have spared me and probably a lot of other people a lot of searching.<\/p>\n In case you’ve encountered the same issue: The solution is to disable file:\/\/ protocol restrictions with the –allow-file-access-from-files command line switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reorganizing a project I rewrote a part that previously included a source file via a script file to include it via XMLHttpRequest and BOOM, my code suddenly imploded on Chrome during local testing. What’s so bad about it is that it imploded with a cryptic error message “XMLHttpRequest Exception 101” which means a NETWORK_ERR has … Continue reading @Chromium Team: please provide usable error messages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapper-ware.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}