[LRUG] Upload to S3 using a remote url

[Ed James (Alt)]

That looks interesting, thanks George. 
I'll let you know how I get on.

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On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 18:40, George Palmer wrote:

> Hi Ed,
> 
> There is a way to do this without flash. I remember reading about the
> technique in the S3 docs a few years back. A quick Google bought up
> this for me: http://blog.andrewbruce.net/upload-direct-to-amazon-s3-from-rails
> although but there were plenty more blog posts on solving them problem
> using other technologies if that's not much use.
> 
> Let me know how it goes - it's something I've been meaning to add to
> my app for years now,
> 
> George
> 
> 
> On 16 May 2012 18:24, Ed James (Alt) <ed.james.spam at gmail.com (mailto:ed.james.spam at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I currently allow users to upload files through my web app, which are pushed
> > directly to my S3 bucket using a flash uploader. The flash object uploads
> > the file directly to S3. I cannot modify this flash object.
> > 
> > I now want to be able to let the user simply provide a url to the file they
> > want to upload. Typically these files can be very large (1GB+) so I cannot
> > simply download the file to my web server and then push it to S3. I need the
> > upload to work without going through my server cache or filesystem. As far
> > as I know it's not possible to have S3 initiate the download by providing a
> > url.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?
> > 
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