Comments on: 9 Hidden Features of Amazon S3

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:20:41 +0000

Sorry, but I'm not that familiar with the SDK.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:05:40 +0000

Thanks for the response do you know if the shared folders work with the SDK?

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:04:05 +0000

I know no way to do user authentication over http. I think the S3 protocol is required to do that. The closest feature would be the temporary URLs that you create and send, but probably not what you're looking for. There may be a web-based S3 client to give and in-the-browser experience, but it wouldn't be a true http request.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:27:14 +0000

Is there a way for the user to access the a shared bucket just using a url request? or does the user have to access the shared bucket using a third party application. I don't have my bucket shared to everyone I just have it shared to a certain user with read-only rights in the ACL. I have tested the ACL using S3browers but I don't want to have to use that product. I might even have a script to access the files remotely if possible. any help would be appreciated

Chris

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:46:53 +0000

Very nice blog post on S3.

What audio player are you using to play your mp3 on S3? I can't seem to get WPAudio to work.

Thanks!

Frank

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By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:05:51 +0000

http://florchakh.com/2007/03/23/how-to-hide-affiliate-links-with-javascript.html

By: monts

monts — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:35:17 +0000

put a flash or java player on the web page and it will hide the link? can u show us how???

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:55:26 +0000

Virtual1: No, not really. But you can put a flash or java player on the web page and it will hide the link to the file on Amazon S3. This will keep most people from finding the file location.

By: Virtual1

Virtual1 — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:04:39 +0000

Is there a way to allow the public to listen to an mp3 but not download it?

By: Takeo

Takeo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:51:27 +0000

> Enable / Disable directory browsing…
> If you don't want the bucket contents list-able
> but do want to share the file within it, disable Read access

If I do this, all files that are added after this change become private too. Which is not very usable for me, as I also need to add files without having to edit their ACLs one by one. Any other suggestions?

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:55:32 +0000

This won't help at all with linking to images; signed URLs expire after the specified period of time.

The only way to get around others leaching your images is to embed images in flash/javascript (which has its own issues) or to configure the .htaccess file on the server to prevent access to images when the referrer (which is sent by the browser) is an external site (rather than your own site, which is what you'd expect.)

By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:07:36 +0000

What about images hosted on Amazon S3 and being used in Wordpress… how can we prevent hotlinking? Does signed url work that way when publishing in a blog post?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:33:58 +0000

Just discovered your blog and am finding it an extremely invaluable resource. thanks so much for posting these tips, they've given me some great ideas on how to better use Amazon S3.