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How to Prevent Hotlinking of Images Hosted on Amazon S3 — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:14:23 +0000

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By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:45:22 +0000

Brandon, I believe that it is, but the person must be an Amazon S3 user.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:58:41 +0000

Is option number 7 “Share your bucket with a someone – whether they’re an S3 user or not.” still supported by Amazon S3. I can’t seem to find the option that you are describing.

By: Shazad

Shazad — Sun, 08 May 2011 01:19:47 +0000

Thankyou Carlton for sharing your valuable knowledge.

Exellant post. Keep you the good work.

Regards
Shazad

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:23:31 +0000

That is the best S3 article I have stumbled across on the web. Definitely an area where I have to make the effort to learn more as it could prove invaluable. Thanks for writing it.

By: Yanlin Ye

Yanlin Ye — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:12:20 +0000

Thanks, Carlton. That was my understanding as well. I’ve mentioned two possible workarounds for content listing:

1. Create a bucket for each user and put the user’s files in that bucket. However, since bucket names are global across all Amazon S3 accounts, I am not sure whether or not there are any restrictions on the number of buckets an account can have. Another problem is that the end user will still likely have no clue on the XML file.

2. Create a simple application that reads the content of the specified bucket and displays only the files and sub-folders within the given folder. This is an extra layer of indirection, of course.

Of course this only applies to public access. For authenticated users, we can always use the S3 management console, or even better, some third party tool such as Bucket Explorer.

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:46:10 +0000

No, not of which I’m aware. It would require some coding on a website interfacing with S3, but can’t be done directly within S3 as I understand it.

By: yangler

yangler — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:19:52 +0000

For item #2, “Enable / Disable directory browsing,” is there a way to allow the listing of the content of a folder (or any folder within a bucket)? I am asking this because we would like to create a folder for each (anonymous) user and put multiple files in there for her/him. Thanks,

Yangler

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:51:21 +0000

This is some nice and valuable Amazon S3 information. I’ve been looking for a free alternative to bucket explorer, do you know of any that work similar?

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:31:24 +0000

DragonDisk is a fast S3 client with an intuitive graphical user interface ( http://www.dragondisk.com )

By: Prevent Hotlinking of your Amazon S3 Images | Syamsurian.com

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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

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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???