Canvas tainted by cross-origin data

Question

I\'m loading a motion jpeg from third-party site, which I can trust. I\'m trying to getImageData() but the browser (Chrome 23.0) complains that:

Answer 1

Also worth noting that the CORS will apply if you are working locally regardless of if the resource is in the same directory as the index.html file you are working with. For me this mean the CORS problems disappeared when I uploaded it to my server, since that has a domain.