LeighWardle

I worked out how to make an Amazon S3 file Public.

I used Cloudberry Explorer – Right Click | ACL Settings | All Users | Read [*]. Probably something similar in the S3 console.

Tested one of these files in Download Monitor.

The URL has all the security stuff appended:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/mincad-website-downloads/CIRCLY_6.0_Install.exe?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAJWCQXNMQ2QXD23NQ%2F20151023%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20151023T014315Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=Host&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=8e32dd05f38f8956cfd4c7b4f3293527929003bfc5ca10908aee4d4212d4b94b

It will download the file when the WP User is not logged in.

But the bad news is that the URL expires.

We really need a way for the Amazon S3 Extension to just serve up the URL without any of the security stuff appended.

Here’s a sample from Download Logs | Export CSV:

First row is for an Amazon S3 download (the Download ID is 0).
Second row is for a normal, redirected file:

Download ID	Version ID	Filename	User ID	User Login	User Email	User IP	User Agent	Date	Status

0	0	-	3518	[email protected]	[email protected]	36.70.80.3	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko	27/10/2015 11:11	redirected - Redirected to Amazon S3

3732	3757	Layered-Elastic-Pavement-Design-Recent-Developments.-Wardle-L.J.-and-Rodway-B.-1998.pdf	0	[email protected]	[email protected]	54.217.113.125	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0	27/10/2015 10:22	redirected - Redirected to file

Angelo,

Thanks for your help.

Regards, Leigh