In my windows machine I run a simple fileserver that serves certain files from a folder. I access these files via chrome/firefox browsers
For a certain file format (In my case ".bin" file) the xhr request always stalls with a message saying "pending". But If I rename the file extension to ".cbin" and reload the page on browser again it works.
Why are the browsers preventing a certain file to be loaded ? All of this used to work a month back without issues (ie loading the bin files). I have disabled my antivirus too.
Any help would be invaluable. Thanks
After hours of searching on the web and experimenting I realized that the browsers have recently added rules by which they block downloads of certain files (exe,dmg,zip,gzip,bin) etc on a http connection for security reasons.
Hope this will help someone who faces the same issue.