S3 accepts query string based authentication with expiration time.
Proxy through GAE will limit file size to 1M and triple the network
usage.
On Oct 10, 4:24 pm, "Venkatesh Rangarajan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well,
>
> If you do that, then you have to Open media.<yourdomain> to public. You have
> to give read access to public.
>
> its a choice one can make..that basically makes all of your files structure
> public and anybody can download them. All of them at one go.
>
> By you using URL fetch, appengine is the gatekeeper and you can have stats/
> ads and any other functionality you want.
>
> Rgds,
> Venkatesh
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:05 PM, yejun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Why not serve file from S3 directly?
>
> > On Oct 10, 1:38 pm, "Venkatesh Rangarajan"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Phtq,
>
> > > Its better if you host your static files in Amazon S3.
>
> > > You can create a new subdomain...say media.<your domain name>.com on S3
>
> > > And when in appengine, you reference that file, all you have to do a is a
> > > urlfetch
>
> > > Sample : urlfetch.fetch('http://media.<your domain>.com/mp3/' + <file
> > name>)
>
> > > you can use amazon S3 organizer to upload files to S3. Its as simple as
> > FTP.
> > > Link :
> >https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247https://addons.moz...
>
> > > Rgds,
> > > Venkatesh
>
> > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Barry Hunter
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> > > > Couple of options:
>
> > > > Host the 'static' files elsewhere (eg Amazon S3 - esp as it will soon
> > > > have a CDN)
>
> > > > Store the files in the datastore, and serve them dynamically via a
> > > > script. (be careful to set good caching headers to avoid wasting
> > > > resources)
>
> > > > Store the files in zip files (beware a 1Mb limit) and dynamicially
> > > > serve them via a script. (not recommended)
>
> > > > You have 10 'apps', distribute your static files around other
> > > > installations.
>
> > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:36 AM, phtq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > > We have an application we want to put online but it contains about
> > > > > 8,000 files (these are mp3, gif, swf, html, etc) in the English
> > > > > version alone. We tested a cut down version online and it worked
> > fine,
> > > > > but when we try to put up the whole application for testing we get a
> > > > > fail message from the uploader.
>
> > > > > Is it going to impossible to mount this application in
> > > > > GoogleAppEngine?
>
> > > > --
> > > > Barry
>
> > > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk-
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