Question
How to allow access to files on Spaces from only my website
- Posted on April 25, 2024
- DigitalOcean Spaces
Asked by Erdem Koc
Hello, is it posssible to allow access to files from only my website and not directly?
For example when someone type https://cdn.example.com/image.png from their browser they shouldn’t have access this file but when I put <img src="https://cdn.example.com/image.png" in my website it should have accessible. Is this possible?
I ask this because I plan to serve large zip files on my CDN, and if these files are accessible to everyone who has a link to them, they can be published on other sites and my bandwidth can fill up quickly. How do I ensure that these files are only downloaded from my site?
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Heya,
This definitely sounds doable. I believe one way to achieve this will be using a pre-signed URLs.
A pre-signed URL is a connection URL created by an authorised user so that unauthorized users can access restricted resources without sharing credentials.
You can find more information here:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/glossary/pre-signed-url/
Regards