Read a serverside file using HTML5

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I'm new in HTML5 programming. I'm porting my mobile games to HTML5. I have lots of text files which are located on server's folders, so I'd like to read a file from known url and I don't know how to do it. I found a tutorial but there are the file reads from the local folder: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/

Would you mind provide me an example how to read a serverside file from known url in the simplest way?

Thanks and peace to all!

Pranay Rana · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-08 07:53:47Z

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Have look to : Jquery Ajax Calling functions

make use of jquery make your task easy

jQuery.get('http://localhost/foo.txt', function(data) {
    var myvar = data;
});

edited Feb 8, 2012 at 7:53

answered Feb 8, 2012 at 6:07

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Rich Bradshaw Over a year ago

Also worth noting that you don't need html5 to do this - reading clientside files requires html5 apis, but this works back to IE6.

Rich Bradshaw Over a year ago

Exactly. His question incorrectly asked about html5, but the correct answer has nothing to do with html5. I wanted to clarify to Yakov that this isn't a new thing, and doesn't have anything to do with html5.

tnt-rox · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-08 06:31:44Z

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And if you are not using jQuery you can take a look at this Ajax example.

answered Feb 8, 2012 at 6:31

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