[gdal-dev] GDAL vsicurl with query string

[Even Rouault]

Le samedi 23 août 2014 00:13:21, JDzialo John a écrit :
> Hi All,
> 
> This is my first post so forgive my noobiness...
> 
> We are running a cropping tool that used to access data from a local hard
> drive and crop images.
> 
> Now we want to use s3 as our storage in aws and want to access files
> through http requests.  Great!  Enter vsicurl.
> 
> So when we open our s3 bucket to the world we can easily access our tif
> images from s3 with a straight url.  For example...
> 
> https://test-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/test/key/value/string/object.tif
> 
> This works well using the gdalinfo vsicurl cmd...
> 
> gdalinfo
> /vsicurl/https://test-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/test/key/value/string/object
> .tif
> 
> However in s3 it is not secure to allow access to everyone on the internet
> and would rather use a presigned URL that uses a query string to
> authenticate access to the object.
> 
> When sending a request with a query string vsicurl and gdal appear to
> breakdown and I'm not sure why.
> 
> gdalinfo
> /vsicurl/https://test-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/test/key/value/string/object
> .tif?Signature=sdlfkj88345r9&Expires=12300000&AWSAccessKeyID=AKIALKSDJFOILI
> KJFVOSIDF

I tried the URL in a browser and got a AccessDenied. Was it supposed to work 
or something faked to just give a sense of the kind of URL ? A working example 
would be helpful.

> 
> Fails saying it's unable to open the file.
> 
> Is there a specific way to pass the query string to the VSIL API like when
> using curl with the -d switch?  Any way to run vsicurl with a query string
> or something I'm missing?
> 
> Thanks for any advice you can throw my way!
> 
> 
> 
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