I hit an error while using Jasmine and Jasmine-Jquery on a Windows 7 machine. Turned out that the root cause of the issue was with a Chrome setting on Windows 7. I spent significant amount of time googling before I found the solution. What tripped me in my Google search was that I kept searching for Jasmine\/Jasmine-JQuery errors. This mini-post is to help folk who hit the exact same issue as I did.<\/p>\n
I was trying to run fixture.HTML<\/span> while using Jasmine-Jquery with the loadFixture() method. I was greeted with this strange error message:<\/p>\n This issue had nothing to do with Jasmine-Jquery. It was related with the cross domain policy settings under Chrome. Latest versions of Chrome don’t allow file:\/\/URIs to read other file:\/\/URIs for security reasons. <\/p>\n One way to solve this problem is to run chrome.exe with the switch Cautionary note:<\/strong> Do NOT <\/u><\/strong> surf the web with the –allow-file-access-from-files setting enabled – it is dangerous! There is a good security reason for why Chrome does not allow local files to access other local files. <\/p>\n I hit an error while using Jasmine and Jasmine-Jquery on a Windows 7 machine. Turned out that the root cause of the issue was with a Chrome setting on Windows 7. I spent significant amount of time googling before I found the solution. What tripped me in my Google search was that I kept searching for Jasmine\/Jasmine-JQuery errors. This mini-post […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nError: Fixture could not be loaded: spec\/javascripts\/fixtures\/fixture.html\n<\/div>\n--allow-file-access-from-files<\/code>. To do so, launch the command prompt and issue the following command:
\n $CHROME_DIR\\chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files<\/code>
\nOn my machine, the above command translated to:
\nC:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files<\/code> .<\/p>\n
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