Route Isn't Displayed with Local Clone about osrm-frontend HOT 7 CLOSED

You need to load it from a local http server. For that occasions I have a small script:
https://gist.github.com/TheMarex/b5a44fa78a036a42f1a2
That starts up a http server in the current directory which listens on https://127.0.0.1:8337

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Thanks for sharing the script, that works great to get the frontend working locally. Do you know what part of the frontend requires a httpd? I am interested in using it for a mobile routing application using cordova, but loading a httpd on the phone probably isn't a good solution.

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One of the primary issues is probably that the OSRM server is referred by a protocol relative URL (//router.project-osrm.org/viaroute rather than for example http://router.project-osrm.org/viaroute) which causes problem when the page is loaded from file://. You can fix this by overriding the serviceUrl option to the router instance (L.Routing.OSRM).

However, there are other things that break when you use file://, such as not being able to load things with XHR even locally without running into cross-site issues in normal browsers. I have no idea how Cordova deals with this, but I guess there must be a way to load local assets with XHR.

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Thanks perliedman! Changing from a relative URL to a complete URL allows it to work properly without a httpd locally. Now I need to work on getting it working with Cordova.

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@TheMarex Is this something we should fix, too?

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@DennisOSRM nothing to fix on our side. Running from file:// is just a bad idea in general.

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Alright, fair enough. We should add a section to the readme explaining how to run locally and what dependencies that carries.

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