get text file from server with meteor

Question

I'm trying to develop a simple app and I'd like to read from a changing text file on the server with the meteor framework.

A little background: I tried using straight javascript to read the text file, but I got an error when doing this. My javascript was the following:

$.get("./temp.txt",function(returnedData)
{
$("#element").text(returnedData);
},"text/plain");

var text = $("#element").text();

In the web development tools in chromium it says the following when the script is run: "XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///home/grneggandsam/WebDevelopment/Test/temp.txt. Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource."

Edit: I should say that in firefox it appears to be working fine... not sure why it doesn't work in chromium and chrome...

Sorry - I'm pretty new to pulling data off of servers. After doing some research on this error I started to think it might be because I am not using a server-side language. So, I decided to look into the Meteor Framework. I also just want to learn the meteor framework because of its usefulness.

My question is: Is there a way to read a text file with the Meteor framework, and how do you do it?

Answer 1

I guess you are trying to achieve this by writing things to a plain .html file and you are not using a webserver?

That's why you are getting this error. As you can see, the error tells you to use one of those protocols for your AJAX-request: http, data, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource. You are using the protocol file, which is not in the list.

Just to solve this problem, you don't have to learn the whole Meteor framework. I'd recommend that you install a simple HTTP-Server and try to get your script up and running over there.

Refer to this SO-answer. This answer over there describes how to get a simple HTTP-Server.