JS prevents navigation of local files

[gubler]

navigation.js prevents the browser from navigating normally if the AJAX request fails.

If a page is loaded from the file system (not through a server), the AJAX request generated on navigation fails due to CORS restrictions.

I think the problem is that line 297 is commented out:

return loading.show(
        promise
        .fail(function (e) {
            console.log(e); // eslint-disable-line no-console
            // location.href = relativeUrl;  <--- THIS LINE HERE
        })
    );

After the AJAX load fails and the error is logged to the console, the location is never updated and so the browser is never forwarded to the new page.

[yeluolei]

same issue here, any idea for how to fix this problem?

[mikesamuel]

I had this problem as well. I managed to test the output of

gitbook build . gitbook_out

locally around by running

pushd gitbook_out && \
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000; \
popd

and browsing to http://127.0.0.1:8000/index.html.