HTML 5 Geo Location Prompt in Chrome

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Just starting to get into HTML 5 and an testing out geo location   liking it so far  I am hitting a bit of a speed bump though   when I try to get my geo location  chrome automatically blocks the page from getting my location  This does not happen at other sites such as the site below    http   html5demos com geo  The scripts I m using     lt script type  text javascript  JavaScript  SRC  geo js  gt  lt  script gt      lt script type  text javascript  JavaScript  SRC  Utility js  gt  lt  script gt    lt script type  text javascript  JavaScript  SRC  jquery js  gt  lt  script gt    lt script type  text javascript  JavaScript  SRC  modernizr js  gt  lt  script gt     function get location              if  geo position js init                  geo position js getCurrentPosition show map  handle error                        function show map position            var latitude   position coords latitude          var longitude   position coords longitude           alert  lat     latitude     long     longitude               function handle error err            alert err code           if  err code    1                   user said no                       if  navigator geolocation            navigator geolocation getCurrentPosition show map  handle error         else           error  not supported            I am testing this out from a local directory on my machine  so there isn t really a  domain  like  http   whatever com mytestpage html   Is this why I am not getting prompted  If so  is it possible to force the browswer to request permission to get the user s geo location and is it possible in my scenario

User · Answer

The easiest way is to click on the area left to the address bar and change location settings there  It allows to set location options even for file

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I too had this problem when i was trying out Gelocation API  I then started IIS express through visual studio and then accessed the page and It worked without any issue in all browsers

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Make sure it s not blocked at your settings   http   www howtogeek com howto 16404 how-to-disable-the-new-geolocation-feature-in-google-chrome

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For an easy workaround  just copy the HTML file to some cloud share  such as Dropbox  and use the shared link in your browser    Easy

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As already mentioned in the answer by robertc  Chrome blocks certain functionality  like the geo location with local files  An easier alternative to setting up an own web server would be to just start Chrome with the parameter --allow-file-access-from-files  Then you can use the geo location  provided you didn t turn it off in your settings

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if you re hosting behind a server  and still facing issues  try changing localhost to 127 0 0 1 e g  http   localhost 8080  to http   127 0 0 1 8080    The issue I was facing was that I was serving a site using apache tomcat within an eclipse IDE  eclipse luna    For my sanity check I was using Remy Sharp s demo  https   github com remy html5demos blob eae156ca2e35efbc648c381222fac20d821df494 demos geo html  and was getting the error after making minor tweaks to the error function despite hosting the code on the server  was only working on firefox and failing on chrome and safari     User denied Geolocation   I made the following change to get more detailed error message   function error msg      var s   document querySelector   status      msg   msg message   msg message   msg    add this line   s innerHTML   typeof msg     string    msg    failed     s className    fail         console log arguments       failing on internet explorer behind virtualbox IE10 on http   10 0 2 2 8080     The current location cannot be determined

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None of the above helped me   After a little research I found that as of M50  April 2016  - Chrome now requires a secure origin  such as HTTPS  for Geolocation   Deprecated Features on Insecure Origins  The host  localhost  is special b c its  potentially secure    You may not see errors during development if you are deploying to your development machine

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There s some sort of security restriction in place in Chrome for using geolocation from a file     URI  though unfortunately it doesn t seem to record any errors to indicate that   It will work from a local web server   If you have python installed try opening a command prompt in the directory where your test files are and issuing the command   python -m SimpleHTTPServer   It should start up a web server on port 8000  might be something else  but it ll tell you in the console what port it s listening on   then browse to http   localhost 8000 mytestpage html  If you don t have python there are equivalent modules in Ruby  or Visual Web Developer Express comes with a built in local web server

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