# Load images from server on localhost, then upload them?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-images-from-server-on-localhost-then-upload-them/234103
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 30, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-images-from-server-on-localhost-then-upload-them/234103 "2007-07-30T16:10:06Z")
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### Author: ![sprinkles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sprinkles](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sprinkles)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-images-from-server-on-localhost-then-upload-them/234103/1 "2007-07-30T16:10:06Z")

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I wont bore you with the complicated background, but I have a problem, and I think Flash can solve it!

An application passes a list of URLs to images to my script. I need to then get these images onto my server. The problem is that the images are being served on a server on the users computer.

I was initially going to do this with PHP, and just pull the files that way, but I ran into a problem when I realised that the server wont accept incoming connections.

I then turned to Javascript, but I can’t load things from [http://localhost/](http://localhost/) because of XSS protection.

My last resort is Flash! I basically need to provide the URL of an image to the flash movie, and have it grab that image then upload it.

i.e.:  
I call movie.swf?url=http://localhost:40000/images/DSC200.jpg, which then pulls that image into the flash movie and uploads it to my server.

Is this actually possible?