How to fix getImageData() error The canvas has been tainted by cross-origin data?

Question

My code is working very well on my localhost but it is not working on the site.

I got this error from the console, for this line .getImageData(x,y,1,1).data:

Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to execute 'getImageData' on 'CanvasRenderingContext2D': The canvas has been tainted by cross-origin data. 

part of my code:

jQuery.Event.prototype.rgb=function(){
        var x =  this.offsetX || (this.pageX - $(this.target).offset().left),y =  this.offsetY || (this.pageY - $(this.target).offset().top);
        if (this.target.nodeName!=="CANVAS")return null;
        return this.target.getContext('2d').getImageData(x,y,1,1).data;
    }

Note: my image url (src) is from a subdomain url

Answer 1

As others have said you are "tainting" the canvas by loading from a cross origins domain.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/CORS_Enabled_Image

However, you may be able to prevent this by simply setting:

img.crossOrigin = "Anonymous";

This only works if the remote server sets the following header appropriately:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

The Dropbox file chooser when using the "direct link" option is a great example of this. I use it on oddprints.com to hoover up images from the remote dropbox image url, into my canvas, and then submit the image data back into my server. All in javascript