Depends on which external service you use. Most likely you will need
to proxy credential between different services. Amazon S3 doesn't have
per user ACL I believe. The simplest way in mind: you put your s3
credential in your code, when a user request comes in, you check user
credential, if verifie
Thanks to all of you for all of the info so far!
What I was thinking is that you would simply have the GAE app generate
the appropriate URL for the external server. I don't really care if
the end user sees that the images are coming from another site.
What I do care about is ensuring that the U
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]"
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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
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...
>
The simplest would probably be just to use incredibably hard to guess
URLs - and then the GAE app knows the real url, or how to calcuate it.
(eg using md5 hashes with a shared secret)
Its not totally secure, people without an account could still access
them, if they where given the url, or if the
