Read text in java script

Question

What is a typical method for reading text files in javascript? The file will be located on the server like the rest of the script files, but I want to use it as GLSL shaders for instance.

I thought I could simply replace this:

<script id="shader-vs" type="x-shader/x-vertex">
    //GLSL code
</script>

with this line:

<script id="shader-vs2" type="x-shader/x-vertex" src="../Data/Effects/Shader.vp"></script>

When I tried it on Chrome it resulted in the following error.

Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type application/octet-stream: "https://c9.io/b_old/substitute/workspace/Data/Effects/Shader.vp".

How should this be done?

I suppose what I really want is a XmlHttpRequest.

Answer 1

Configure your web server to transfer *.vp files as x-shader/x-vertex .

For example in apache you would configure something like this in your .htaccess file:

AddType x-shader/x-vertex vp

Other web servers have their own ways to configure this. IIS Documentation is here if you're using it.

Answer 2

我想我真正想要的是XmlHttpRequest。