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Short Question About Amazon S3

by Long Beach Nathan
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Quick question. When you use Amazon s3 to sell digital files, is the page protected so that the link can only be accessed by the person who paid for the download, i.e., an https page?
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  • Profile picture of the author gcbmark20
    Hi,

    Your actual page can be protected by using wordpress plugins.

    Then once your pages are protected the visitors can only download
    the content on that page (amazonS3 files etc) once they have paid etc.

    You'll give the paying customers access to that page using a password
    and then they'll be able to access the files.

    There are many ways of protecting your files so I hope this helps to
    give you something that you can go on.

    All the best
    Gavin
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  • Profile picture of the author wlasikiewicz
    90% of people that use Amazon S3 to deliver their products do not protect their downloads.
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by Long Beach Nathan View Post

    Quick question. When you use Amazon s3 to sell digital files, is the page protected so that the link can only be accessed by the person who paid for the download, i.e., an https page?
    Amazon S3 is capable of protecting your downloads, but you still need to install software on your own site that actually protects them. S3 knows whether a given request is authorised, i.e. has included the correct credentials, but it's your site that sends the request... so software on your end has to check whether the request is authorised and decide whether to provide those credentials.

    DLGuard and Digital Access Pass do this pretty well. There are many other solutions, but I am not familiar with them.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Amazon S3 allows you to automatically create unique expiring download links for each user which in essence will protect your download link from being shared across forums or other websites. So if someone were to copy and paste the download link and share it on a forum, that download link would expire not long after (you get to choose how long the links are active for) and thus protecting your files from being shared.

    To protect your actual download pages though, that is not the job of a service like Amazon S3. Amazon S3 can only protect files. If you want to protect the pages in your membership site then you need to use a membership script and the one I recommend is Digital Access Pass. This locks your pages so only members can login and access those pages and the content on those pages.

    I use Digital Access Pass in conjunction with Amazon S3 to host and protect all of my membership sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author vtotheyouknow
    I second what Will above said.

    The same developers of DAP also have a plugin called S3MediaVault which is perfect for this kind of thing. It allows you to specify which pages people can access your S3 content FROM.

    In other words, even if they have the URL of a file, they can only access it from the page that you specify. And if it's a page protected by a wordpress password or membership script, you have 2 layers of security. :-)
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