Is there any way to load an image from cross origin where Access-Control-Allow-Origin is not set by the server ?

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#1

var createScene = function () {
var scene = new BABYLON.Scene(engine);

var camera = new BABYLON.FreeCamera("camera1", new BABYLON.Vector3(0, 0, -5), scene);
camera.setTarget(BABYLON.Vector3.Zero());
camera.attachControl(canvas, true);

new BABYLON.HemisphericLight("light", new BABYLON.Vector3(0, 1, -1), scene);

/**
 * Is there any way to load an image from cross origin 
 * where Access-Control-Allow-Origin is not set by the server ?
 */

const src = 'https://vhaonline.usc.edu/vhaimages/stills/617269.jpeg';
//const src = 'https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSArIeRcpcwIHj6R1zzYhEyJNPHHiBCXpN_vfjiloDdh9f9Svb8RUFGiJycz-kttSQpCeU&usqp=CAU';

BABYLON.Tools.CorsBehavior = 'anonymous';
BABYLON.Tools.SetCorsBehavior( src,canvas );

const mat = new BABYLON.StandardMaterial('billboard-material', scene);
mat.diffuseTexture = new BABYLON.Texture(
    src,
    scene
);
const billboard = BABYLON.MeshBuilder.CreatePlane('billboard-mesh', {}, scene);
billboard.material = mat;

return scene;

};

#2

Not in modern browser as it is a security constraint to prevent unallowed cross origin accesses.

You could nevertheless disable cors on your browsers if really required but it would not work for other users.

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#3

Ah that makes sense, thanks,

#4

There are hacky ways around cors. One method is to use PHP and spoof the server to think it’s a local request.

I posted a GitHub about it at some point and a forum post. I’ll see if I can’t dig that up for you.

That was years ago now though and I don’t know if stuff has changed, but I’m assuming it works still.

#5

@Pryme8
Thanks for the input … I think I do not want to do a work-around i will just do the proper thing which is to get the server response corrected.

#6

Well I mean, the definition of respond correctly is loose when you talk internet :smirk:.

It’s prolly worth a look, you basically do a cors bypass php page that routs an ajax request and returns the results as Json/html/binary what have you then just parse it. Some assets on a html page might not come through but anything like images videos etc are totally accessable even if they don’t want you to have them.