Hmm..thats a good Point.. i was not aware of that ( query string based
authentication with expiration time.).
Sounds like that would be a better solution, especially with 1M limit
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:33 PM, yejun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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