Comments on: Enabling BitmapData.draw (..) on crossdomain images in Adobe Flash Player 9

By: Giuseppe

Giuseppe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:39:13 +0000

Very interesting post!
I'd like to use it in conjunction with youtube AS3 API
but I don't know what to put in request.url = “”;
I tried
request.url = “http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?version=3″;
but it doesn't work

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:29:57 +0000

I am glad you found it useful. Thanks to everyone who commented here to make this post super useful.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:42:17 +0000

solutions provided worked as expected,
used a loadPolicyFile in AS2 to load the crossdomain, and a proxy method to make it work with bitMapaData when it comes to handle external images.

Thanks for all the invaluable input Abdul and rest of contributers

By: Prakaz

Prakaz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:27:18 +0000

Thanks Abdul!

By: Orc

Orc — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:15:44 +0000

Uhh flash is really making troubles to me with this new security settings and seems to be breaking tons of wordpress installs, etc =\ any solution if you dont have the crossdomain.xml on the other server? =\

By: Kartik

Kartik — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:48:32 +0000

Hi,
Any body have working example of bitmapdata draw method for cross domain swf
Thanks in advance

By: radu

radu — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:34:15 +0000

it doesn’t work for me…i’ve did everything as it should but still get the security sandbox violation error. Too bad…i’ll have to use a proxy…and that’s not cool.

By: Justin Love

Justin Love — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:30:45 +0000

Abdul, you just saved my life

By: Anders

Anders — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:30 +0000

Thank You Abdul

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:10:56 +0000

@Eric, even if it’s S3, you can have crossdomain.xml there.
Anyway, you can use proxy, which is hosted on your server, to load image.
You can check out this:-
http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/general/php_proxy_script_for.php
This might be useful, you need to host it on your server and use it like this:-
http://yourserver/proxy.php?url=http://amazons3/image.jpeg

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:43:35 +0000

Hi, thanks for this post, it’s very helpful. My problem is that I cannot upload a crossdomain.xml file as it is not my domain ( Amazon S3 ). Is there another way around this problem? I don’t really understand why the data is protected in the first place.

By: Pollo

Pollo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:43:01 +0000

Hey, so when you write that this code is for flash player 9 and not 8, what you actually mean is that it’s for AS3 and not AS2? Cuz flash 9 playes AS2 just the same!

By: Designer Boy

Designer Boy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:07:49 +0000

Just thought I’d add my bit, yep it does work in AS2 using the loadPolicyFile method.
It’s helped loads! thanks guys,

By: Augustus

Augustus — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:07:56 +0000

Just wanted to confirm, for anybody else, that it DOES WORK in AS 2.0. You just have to force it to load the policy file:

System.security.loadPolicyFile(”http://” + myDomain + “/crossdomain.xml”);

I put that as soon as I know the domain I’m loading from, and everything works.

By: Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:40:06 +0000

System.security.loadPolicyFile() DOES work in Actionscript 2.0
Tested it myself…