Kevin, this is exactly what a signed URL means. I can vouch that jclouds supports this for Atmos, Azure, S3, and Swift. Note that some providers give additional features in their signed URL mechanism such as time-limited and byte-range requests although jclouds does not yet expose these.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 02:16:11PM -0700, Kevin Krouse wrote: > Is there a helper to get a signed URL that uses query string > parameters instead of the Authorization header? > > Something like this: > > http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/RESTAuthentication.html#RESTAuthenticationQueryStringAuth > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn140256.aspx > > Kevin > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Andrew Gaul <g...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 02:50:25PM +0200, Andrew Phillips wrote: > >> Have a look at the Rackspace examples [1]. Specifically, CloudFilesPublish > >> and GenerateTempURL could help. One of the cloud-storage-workshop exercises > >> [2] also has an example that might be useful. > > > > You can also use BlobRequestSigner.signGetBlob which embeds per-blob > > authentication and allows you to express a time-bound for some > > providers, including Swift. > > > > -- > > Andrew Gaul > > http://gaul.org/ -- Andrew Gaul http://gaul.org/
