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Pre-signed URL

A pre-signed URL is special S3 compliant URL in order to share an object for a specific duration for everyone who has the URL. Thus the URL contains some more query parameters holding that specific information.

Create a pre-signed URL​

The easiest way is to use a tool as creating such pre-signed URLs requires coding skills. E.g. using Cyberduck makes that task very easy.

  • Naviagte to a file of your choice
  • Select Edit -> Copy URL and choose one of the pre-signed URLs which are matching your duration
  • You can alternatively right-click and select either Copy URL or Open URL

Format of supported pre-signed URLs​

https://<region>.contabostorage.com/<bucketname>/path/to/file?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=<credential>&X-Amz-Date=<datetime>&X-Amz-Expires=<duration>X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=<signature>