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links for 2009-10-14 « Amy G. Dala — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:02:02 +0000

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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.