His,

The following code will let you read a file from a URL.
We just tested it an it works.

Paco


var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
var url = "http://fem.um.es/tmp/state.txt";

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
      console.log (xmlhttp.responseText);
    }
}
xmlhttp.open("GET", url, true);
xmlhttp.send();

Hi again,

This, more sophisticated, code guesses the path to the file, if located next to the HTML simulation file.

Paco

var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
//var url = "http://fem.um.es/tmp/state.txt";

var url = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + "/" + window.location.pathname;
var pathArray = url.split( '/' );
var secondLevelLocation = pathArray[0];
var newPathname = "";
for (i = 1; i < pathArray.length; i++) {
  newPathname += pathArray[i-1];
  newPathname += "/";
}
  newPathname += "state.txt";

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
      console.log (xmlhttp.responseText);
        _unserialize(xmlhttp.responseText);
    }
}
xmlhttp.open("GET", newPathname, true);
xmlhttp.send();