I don't think urlfetch is a good way to get remote object especial
large one like images, you will be double charged by network usage.
I think HTTP 302 redirect with url based authentication would be a
more economical solution.

On Nov 3, 12:45 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A solution based off of this 
> :http://stuporglue.org/restrict-access-jpg-htaccess.php
> on your remote server.
>
> Use urlfetch to return and display the images. You'll need to
> determine the best method for passing off to the remote server that
> the request is from a validated GAE user, but that should be simple
> enough for you to figure out without posting the information in a
> group which is indexed by search engines allowing people to easily
> bypass whatever you put in place.
>
> On Nov 3, 12:28 pm, yejun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You can use amazon S3 storage for now which support query string
> > authorization. I believe google will offer large file storage in the
> > near future.
>
> > On Nov 3, 11:19 am, jivany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Part of me thinks this is a stupid question and I'm over-complicating
> > > the solution but...
>
> > > I have a server with a large amount of storage space available.  I'd
> > > like to use that space to serve up images through a GAE app.  The
> > > reason I want a GAE app is so I can integrate with my Google Apps on
> > > my domain. The reason I want to use the other server is because it's
> > > paid for and has a much higher storage limit than the 500MB on GAE.
>
> > > I think the easiest way is to just have the GAE app get the browser to
> > > pull the images from the external server.  My concern is finding a way
> > > to secure the external images so that they can only be accessed with a
> > > valid Google account (as if they were on GAE).
>
> > > Can anyone point me in the right direction to do something like this?
> > > Am I over-complicating this?
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