CORS error when reading data from URL (http.client)

Technical Questions
1

Am reading from a user supplied URL.

const blob = await this.httpClient
	.get(this.loadURL.value, {
		responseType: 'blob'
	})
	.toPromise();
debug('blob', blob);

am getting a cors error like this:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://picsum.photos/200/300' from origin 'https://app-me-us-kirk.apexdesigner.app' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.
2

I have not used picsum.photos but I suspect that they don’t allow other sites to directly reference their content. If this is a one-time operation (download from that site, upload into your app), a server-side behavior using got or axios should be a good workaround.