The spot webserver
We have prepared a basic demo html file that contains a button, a div, a jquery function (for helping us do some ajax calls), and a script that will try to load static content from our server and put the content inside the div tag. The script is trying to load a simple text file on the disk, /file:
If we open this file inside our browser, we can see the page content:
Clicking on the button generates a javascript error. It is telling us that we want to do a cross-origin request, which is not allowed by default by the browser. This is to prevent cross-site scripting attacks. What we need to do in order to test our javascript code is to serve this file in an HTTP server.
In order to start an HTTP server in the same folder as the file, we type the following command:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
This is a basic Python module that opens port 8000 on localhost, serving only static content (so, no, you can't use it for php). Let's open the address in the browser:
Click on...
