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That looks interesting, thanks George.
</div><div>I'll let you know how I get on.</div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 18:40, George Palmer wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Hi Ed,</div><div><br></div><div>There is a way to do this without flash. I remember reading about the</div><div>technique in the S3 docs a few years back. A quick Google bought up</div><div>this for me: <a href="http://blog.andrewbruce.net/upload-direct-to-amazon-s3-from-rails">http://blog.andrewbruce.net/upload-direct-to-amazon-s3-from-rails</a></div><div>although but there were plenty more blog posts on solving them problem</div><div>using other technologies if that's not much use.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know how it goes - it's something I've been meaning to add to</div><div>my app for years now,</div><div><br></div><div>George</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 16 May 2012 18:24, Ed James (Alt) <<a href="mailto:ed.james.spam@gmail.com">ed.james.spam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hi all</div><div><br></div><div>I currently allow users to upload files through my web app, which are pushed</div><div>directly to my S3 bucket using a flash uploader. The flash object uploads</div><div>the file directly to S3. I cannot modify this flash object.</div><div><br></div><div>I now want to be able to let the user simply provide a url to the file they</div><div>want to upload. Typically these files can be very large (1GB+) so I cannot</div><div>simply download the file to my web server and then push it to S3. I need the</div><div>upload to work without going through my server cache or filesystem. As far</div><div>as I know it's not possible to have S3 initiate the download by providing a</div><div>url.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Ed James</div><div>Sent with Sparrow</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>George Palmer</div><div>@georgio_1999</div><div><a href="http://www.digitaldeliveryapp.com">http://www.digitaldeliveryapp.com</a></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Chat mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></div></div></div></span>
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