Re: Amazon S3 support CORS

that's great news for client-side web apps! :) thanks for the link

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
> 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, 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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>
> Regards,
>
> Kingsley Idehen	
> Founder & CEO
> OpenLink Software
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