Amazon S3 support CORS

All,

Making RWW web apps just got a whole lot easier.

Excerpts from the announcement:

We're delighted to announce support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing 
(CORS) in Amazon S3. You can now easily build web applications that use 
JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in Amazon S3, enabling 
you to implement HTML5 drag and drop uploads to Amazon S3, show upload 
progress, or update content. Until now, you needed to run a custom proxy 
server between your web application and Amazon S3 to support these 
capabilities. A custom proxy server was required because web browsers 
limit the way web pages loaded from one site (e.g., mywebsite.com) can 
interact with content from another location (e.g., a location in Amazon 
S3 like assets.mywebsite.com.s3.amazonaws.com). Amazon S3's support for 
CORS replaces the need for this custom proxy server by instructing the 
web browser to selectively enable these cross-site interactions.

Configuring your bucket for CORS is easy. To get started, open the 
Amazon S3 Management Console 
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and follow these simple steps:

1) Right click on your Amazon S3 bucket and open the "Properties" pane.
2) Under the "Permissions" tab, click the "Add CORS configuration" 
button to add a new CORS configuration. You can then specify the 
websites (e.g., "mywebsite.com") that should have access to your bucket, 
and the specific HTTP request methods (e.g., "GET") you wish to allow.
3) Click Save.


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Kingsley Idehen	
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OpenLink Software
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