Good idea. I'll add "fetch files from other domains" to the TODO list, as either it's own call, or maybe do something like allowing "http://" http://" protocols

Good idea. I'll add "fetch files from other domains" to the TODO list, as either it's own call, or maybe do something like allowing "http://" http://" protocols in the SLFSRV.read() method. cross-origin issues would probably prevent some xmlhttprequest calls directly. Meanwhile, here is one current hack you could use to read files from other domains (although it assumes that "curl" is installed): SLFSRV.exec( { program:'curl', args:['curl','https://news.ycombinator.com/' https://news.ycombinator.com/'] }, function(ret) { console.log(ret.stdout); } );