I wrote a tool for spawning a HTTP server with directory listing etc. from any directory. All that's required is Ruby and the Rack gem, then just type "static.ru" in the directory you want as document root.
https://github.com/augustl/binbin/blob/master/static.ru Useful for serving files with HTTP when developing, rather than using file://. On Dec 27, 11:19 am, Mathias Bynens <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Farhan Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the tips and the test cases guys - I'll check out the command > > line option for Chrome. Hopefully this will be "fixed" (unless it's a > > feature!) in future versions. > > Unfortunately, it looks like it’s a feature. > Seehttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=60889#c7: > > > > > By adding that flag you're turning off significant security checks. It's > > just for > > debugging your own code. If we had it on by default, and you happened to > > open a local file [say, in the download directory], it would potentially > > have > > access to your whole local filesystem. -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
