Comments on: S3DropBox – Basic GUI to Amazon S3 http://watchitlater.com/blog/2008/06/s3dropbox-basic-gui-to-amazon-s3/ A reluctant foray into the world of blogging. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:52:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tom http://watchitlater.com/blog/2008/06/s3dropbox-basic-gui-to-amazon-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-1509 Tom Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:51:34 +0000 http://watchitlater.com/blog/?p=17#comment-1509 Hi David, You can get a pre-compiled version of this from http://watchitlater.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/s3gui.zip Just extract the zip file and in windows (with Java5 installed) double-click on s3gui.jar to run the app. If your client runs Mac OSX, you could give them http://watchitlater.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/s3gui-osx.zip Unzip the file, double-click on the DMG and drag the .app to your applications folder. Thanks, Tom. Hi David,

You can get a pre-compiled version of this from http://watchitlater.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/s3gui.zip
Just extract the zip file and in windows (with Java5 installed) double-click on s3gui.jar to run the app.

If your client runs Mac OSX, you could give them http://watchitlater.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/s3gui-osx.zip
Unzip the file, double-click on the DMG and drag the .app to your applications folder.

Thanks,
Tom.

]]> By: David W. http://watchitlater.com/blog/2008/06/s3dropbox-basic-gui-to-amazon-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-1499 David W. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:54:13 +0000 http://watchitlater.com/blog/?p=17#comment-1499 Tom - Is it possible to get a pre-compiled version of this app that could be given to a client. We could then simply tell them to run it, drag and drop their large files into it... and poof... we will get them. This would be very helpful. As web developers, we often need large files from our clients. Trying to get them to use FTP can be a bit difficult at times. Cheers David A. West http://www.ekzact.com Blog - http://davidawest.com Tom –

Is it possible to get a pre-compiled version of this app that could be given to a client. We could then simply tell them to run it, drag and drop their large files into it… and poof… we will get them. This would be very helpful. As web developers, we often need large files from our clients. Trying to get them to use FTP can be a bit difficult at times.

Cheers
David A. West
http://www.ekzact.com
Blog – http://davidawest.com

]]> By: Tom http://watchitlater.com/blog/2008/06/s3dropbox-basic-gui-to-amazon-s3/comment-page-1/#comment-1018 Tom Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:02:23 +0000 http://watchitlater.com/blog/?p=17#comment-1018 Yeah, zip folders are a special beast on windows - difficult to get a reference to a file in a zip folder through the drag and drop interface. Revocation of time-based keys is an interesting topic. From my understanding, you cannot revoke the public URLs (query based authentication in Amazon S3 speak). They are valid until they expire at the time you specified when you created the URL, since the expiry time is both visible in the URL and is also used to create the signature to ensure the validity of the URL. You can actually copy an file (aka object) within the folder (aka bucket), and then delete the original, thus making all the public links to the original invalid. This functionality is not currently available via the S3DropBox, mainly because my wife hasn't asked for it :) Yeah, zip folders are a special beast on windows – difficult to get a reference to a file in a zip folder through the drag and drop interface.

Revocation of time-based keys is an interesting topic. From my understanding, you cannot revoke the public URLs (query based authentication in Amazon S3 speak). They are valid until they expire at the time you specified when you created the URL, since the expiry time is both visible in the URL and is also used to create the signature to ensure the validity of the URL.

You can actually copy an file (aka object) within the folder (aka bucket), and then delete the original, thus making all the public links to the original invalid. This functionality is not currently available via the S3DropBox, mainly because my wife hasn’t asked for it :)

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