I have a TCL/TK Windows application that creates a small executable that I distribute to my customers. Because it is an exe file I can not email the file. Instead I upload it to an Amazon S3 bucket then create a URL link and email the link to them. They download the file from the link and run the exe.
What I would like to do is add the ability upload to an Amazon bucket within the application that will enable me to upload the file and create a URL that I can copy and email to the customer. I have seen Amazon S3 API's written for other languages, python, java, but not TCL. Has anyone done this? How hard is it? Can you point me to a tutorial?
Actually I do not have to use a S3 bucket. If there is another suggestion for how to distribute small files to customers from within TCL programs I am open to suggestions. Besides what has been laid out above the only other requirement is that multiple people must be able to upload to the same location, the TCL program runs on Windows and I would like to not use a 3rd party program. Security is not a major concern, nor is privacy, these things are handled other ways.
Actually, Tcl does provide an S3 package, but since I don't have Amazon S3 account, I cannot test it out.
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We are having a hugh set of images inside dropbox and manually downloading and uploading to S3 is not a practical method.Can anyone suggest the best method to transfer dropbox files with folder to s3 bucket.Java is the technology that we are planning to use.
Thanks in advance.
There's no fix for this, since you don't have access to dropbox servers. If you did own the servers that the files were stored on, then you'd have this similar issue: How to upload files directly to Amazon S3 from a remote server?
You can either write a program to copy the files from Dropbox to AWS s3.OrYou can use a third-party tool.
DropBox
Here is the official GitHub project dropbox-sdk-java with code examples.
AWS
Here is the AWS Java SDK example code for upload-object
Full APIs references
Here are the APIs for Dropbox getting-started-api
Here are the APIs for AWS S3 API Reference
Here are the javadoc for AWS JAVA SDK
Tools
There are third-party tools for doing this.
Here are two examples:
inclowdz
multcloud
I am a newbie to AWS and one of the tasks I have is to figure out how to download MSIs, ISOs stored in S3 through a web browser. I read that I could use CLI behind the scenes. So if a customer clicks on one download; the app would make a request to S3 using one of the commands and that would download the file lets say through Google Chrome or IE (Please correct me if I'm wrong in the usage of CLI).
Now if the download stops for some reason due to internet failure; is there a way to resume the download? How do I get a download done through a client.
Thanks in advance for helping. Unfortunately the AWS links gave me very little information so seeking help here!
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Files stored in Amazon S3 can be directly accessed via web browser, just like clicking a link on any website.
If the files are marked as publicly-accessible, anyone with the link can download the file.
If you wish to limit access to the files, your application can generate a pre-signed URL that will work for a limited time period that you specify (eg 5 minutes). Users can use/click that link to download the file within that time period.
You can also download files using the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI), which has Copy and Sync commands. This would, however, require installation of the CLI on the user's computer. This is great if they are regularly download files or if you wish to automate the download (eg every hour or daily).
If you wish to explore AWS, sign-up for an account and make use of the Free Usage Tier, which lets you try some services for no charge.
I have asked this question so that they can respond that it is possible to create a shortcut for a file that is in the cloud, this access will be created in the device memory, what is the purpose of this: My application has integrated a function to upload a file to the cloud and then run it from a system application like player, gallery, among others, but without having to download anything, but from an application that is installed Installed on the device (nothing external). Thank you very much.
You may want to check Create a shortcut to a file. As mentioned,
To create a shortcut instead of a file stored in Drive, use the files.create method of the API and make sure you set the MIME type application/vnd.google-apps.drive-sdk. Do not upload any content when creating the file.
However, for Google Drive Android API, you may want to check Creating Files for more information.
I am looking for a way to transfer files from a server to Amazon S3 bucket, without first downloading the files to my computer. All of the files I plan to transfer can be accessed publicly (e.g. http://something.com/file.ext). Everything I tried only allows me to directly upload files from my Mac to S3.
P.S. Although I have access to windows, a Mac app that can do this would be great... or maybe a browser-based solution :)
You can check out this PHP class (and a net tuts tutorial on it), it works well, I've been using it for a while now. It includes bucket creation, deletion, adding files and more. You can easily add files remotely from another server, or from the same server you're running it on.
I am starting to use Jungle Disk to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket which corresponds to a Cloudfront distribution. i.e. I can access it via an http:// URL and I am using Amazon as a CDN.
The problem I am facing is that Jungle Disk doesn't set 'read' permissions on the files so when I go to the corresponding URL in a browser I get an Amazon 'AccessDenied' error. If I use a tool like BucketExplorer to set the ACL then that URL now returns a 200.
I really really like the simplicity of dragging files to a network drive. JungleDisk is the best program I've found to do this reliably without tripping over itself and getting confused. However it doesn't seem to have an option to make the files read-able.
I really don't want to have to go to a different tool (especially if i have to buy it) to just change the permissions - and this seems really slow anyway because they generally seem to traverse the whole directory structure.
JungleDisk provides some kind of 'web access' - but this is a paid feature and I'm not sure if it will work or not.
S3 doesn't appear to propagate permissions down which is a real pain.
I'm considering writing a manual tool to traverse my tree and set everything to 'read' but I'd rather not do this if this is a problem someone else has already solved.
Disclaimer: I am the developer of this tool, but I think it may answer your question.
If you are on Windows you can use CloudBerry Explorer Amazon S3 client. It supports most of the Amazon S3 and CloudFront features and It is freeware.
I use the Transmit Mac app to modify permissions on files I've already uploaded with JungleDisk. If you're looking for a more cross-platform solution, the S3Fox browser plugin for Firefox claims to be able to modify permissions on S3 files as well.
If you need a web based tool, you can use S3fm, free online Amazon S3 file manager.
It's a pure Ajax app that runs in your browser and doesn't require sharing your credentials with a 3rd party web site.
If you need a reliable cross-platform tool to handle permissions, you can have a look at CrossFTP Pro. It supports most of the Amazon S3 and CloudFront features as well.