Amazon S3

Hosting
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Hi,

Does anyone know if Amazon S3 allows you to generate links to files that expire?

I am looking to create an MP3 store using Amazon S3 and the PayPal IPN.

The only way I can protect everyone from downloading the files is to generate a link when PayPal payment is successful, that 1. expires within 24 hours and 2. expires once the download is complete.

Thanks.
Ryan

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I’m not sure whether S3 does this, but another approach is to set an expiry date on the download link itself. I use LinkLok, which is very easy to set up and works really well.

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I can serve the link through mysite.php?trans_id=whatever and set that to expire after 24 hours, but if the user clicks this, I believe if you really wanted to you could look at packets and locate the download URL?

Ryan

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I beleieve you will be able to get better answer once you contact service provider directly

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In general I really do not like Amazon service. I have tried to use it, but you know the worse thing is that when I have selected European location (as it has two options US and Europe) the ping time was about 250 which is super long ping :slight_smile:
I actually do not know what purpose should be of amazon service, cause they are really expensive and the load time of their cloud is really overloaded…(but that was my opinion- no offense to amazon fans)

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Don’t you think OP is located not next door to you. It might have poor connection speed on your end, but not on his or her.

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Ok let me clarify how I have tried to ping Amazon Europe server. As we have our servers located in UK, NL, DE, LT and SG. I have picked German server which pinged me 250 the server have 100Mbps connection…I think it is enough info about it :slight_smile: