Oh cool.. Didn't know about this. Will try this out.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Samuel Merritt <s...@swiftstack.com> wrote: > The tempurl key is just a metadata attribute on the account with a > particular name. swiftclient already supports setting metadata on accounts > (and containers and objects); no changes are needed. > > $ swift post -m temp-url-key:**correcthorsebatterystaple > > > On 4/30/13 10:43 AM, Shrinand Javadekar wrote: > >> Thanks for the reply John. >> >> We have seen a few customers struggle when setting up tempurl. Its easy >> to make them edit the proxy-server.conf file. But explaining the second >> step is a bit tedious and error-prone. I've been thinking of having a >> python script that does this. But something official would be better. >> >> Would it be a good idea to add capability to the swift command line >> utility to configure tempurl? >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:48 PM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn >> <mailto:m...@not.mn>> wrote: >> >> There are no plans to change the current implementation of tempurl. >> >> In order to generate a tempurl that can be validated without relying >> on a network call to a centralized authority service, the owner and >> the service must have a shared secret. In the tempurl feature, this >> shared secret is set as a metadata key on the account. This allows >> the content owner to generate as many keys as necessary (without >> having to call an external service) and allows Swift to validate >> each one (without calling an external service). >> >> Note that an auth token is only needed in order to save the shared >> secret in the account metadata. Once the shared secret is set, >> neither the owner of the content nor the user of the tempurl (ie >> someone otherwise without access to the swift cluster) need a valid >> auth token to generate or use a tempurl. >> >> The only official docs for tempurl are at >> http://docs.openstack.org/**developer/swift/misc.html#** >> module-swift.common.**middleware.tempurl<http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/misc.html#module-swift.common.middleware.tempurl> >> (We should probably have some docs written for >> http://docs.openstack.org/api/**openstack-object-storage/1.0/** >> content/<http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/> >> on this feature.) >> >> --John >> >> >> >> On Apr 29, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Shrinand Javadekar >> <shrin...@maginatics.com >> <mailto:shrinand@maginatics.**com<shrin...@maginatics.com>>> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > Configuring tempurl in openstack Swift requires two steps: >> > >> > 1) Adding tempurl to the pipeline in proxy-server.conf >> > 2) Setting the tempurl key on the account. >> > >> > Step #1 above is fairly straight forward. However, step #2 is >> slightly complicated; at least as per [1]. It requires first >> authenticating the user and getting an auth token. Then make an http >> request with the X-Meta-Tempurl-key header to set the tempurl key. >> > >> > Are there easier ways to do this? If not, is it on the roadmap to >> do this easily? >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> > -Shri >> > >> > [1] >> http://failverse.com/using-**temporary-urls-on-rackspace-** >> cloud-files/<http://failverse.com/using-temporary-urls-on-rackspace-cloud-files/> >> > >> > ______________________________**_________________ >> > Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >> > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:openstack@lists.**launchpad.net<openstack@lists.launchpad.net> >> > >> >> > Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >> > More help : >> https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~**openstack<https://launchpad.net/~openstack> >> More help : >> https://help.launchpad.net/**ListHelp<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> >> >
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