How do I display protected Amazon S3 images on my secure site using PHP?

Question

I am trying to move images for my site from my host to Amazon S3 cloud hosting. These images are of client work sites and cannot be publicly available. I would like them to be d

Answer 1

You can download the contents from S3 (in a PHP script), then serve them using the correct headers.

As a rough example, say you had the following in image.php:

$s3 = new AmazonS3();
$response = $s3->get_object($bucket, $image_name);
if (!$response->isOK()) {
    throw new Exception('Error downloading file from S3');
}
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
header("Content-Length: " . strlen($response->body));
die($response->body);

Then in your HTML code, you can do