SecurityDomain 'http://domain.com/app/widget/twitter.png' tried to access incompatible context 'app:/App.swf'

Question

I am trying to load a remote image into my AIR application, and I get the following error:

*** Security Sandbox Violation ***
SecurityDomain 'http://[------].com/app/widget/twitter.png' tried to access incompatible context 'app:/App.swf'

*domain name redacted

So it is basically saying that the remote image is trying to access the application? How do I add the remote domain as trusted?

I tried Security.allowDomain('www.[------].com') and got the following error:

SecurityError: Error #3207: Application-sandbox content cannot access this feature.
at flash.system::Security$/allowDomain()

Answer 1

Do you have access to the remote domain to put a crossdomain.xml file on the root of the web-server?

If not, you can get around the sandboxing issues by loading the image as a byte array (See URLLoader) and then converting it into an image (See SWFLoader.loadBytes) in memory.