PHP Amazon S3 access private files through URL

Question

I\'m using AWS PHP sdk to save images on S3. Files are saved privately. Then, I\'m showing the image thumbnails using the S3 file url in my web application but

Answer 1

I'd highly advise against this, but you could create a script on your own server that pulls the image via the API, caches it and serves. You can then restrict access however you like without making the images public.

Example pass through script:

$headers = get_headers($realpath); // Real path being where ever the file really is

foreach($headers as $header) {
    header($header);
}
$filename = $version->getFilename();

// These lines if it's a download you want to do
// header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
// header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename={$filename}");

$file = fopen($realpath, 'r');
fpassthru($file);
fclose($file);
exit;

This will barely "touch the sides" and shouldn't delay the appearance of your files too much, but t's still going to take some resources and bandwidth.