ping works but chrome not connects?

[Moe]

Originally Posted by chants

So you are likely a greenhorn in this area. But since you've not heard of CORS, here is a reference as it's pretty standard for some years now to be able to allow cross origin resource sharing:

I already mentioned web servers have their own security.

However here he said connection refused, not a 400 unauthorized which would be the correct and likely behavior for a properly configured web server. Hope I've taught our greenhorn friend here some web dev info so they can provide more accurate responses in the future

Read the first post carefully. @agoo is asking about LOCAL DEVICE.
There is no web server involved.

@agoo is trying to access his LOCAL DEVICE files with his browser and asking why it fails.
I have provided the answer.
CORS is something totally different.

Stop trying to put down people with high-sounding terms without understanding their meaning first...