Enabling BitmapData.draw (..) on crossdomain images in Adobe Flash Player 9 28 Jan 2007 Adobe Flash Player 8 and 9 have security-sandbox where-in you can not use BitmapData's draw (..) on crossdomain images, as I mentioned in one of my posts. There is no easy way of doing it with Flash Player 8, you need some kind of shim/library.swf or server-side proxy. Fortunately, Adobe Flash Player 9 has some