How to prevent image hotlinking using Google Storage?

[SHENG GAN]

I have been a huge supporter of Google, thats why I post here before purchasing Amazon S3.

I intend to build a Website using Google App Engine and Google Storage. My site contains thousands of pics and I want to store these pics in Google Storage.

One huge problem is image hotlinking. Due to the high cost of Google Storage bandwidth, If I dont want to file bankruptcy, I need to prevent image hotlinking. But I cant find a way to do that in Google Storage.

In Amazon S3, you can use Buket Policy to prevent image hotlinking via Referrer. Details here:http://www.naveen.info/2011/03/25/amazon-s3-hotlink-prevention-with-bucket-policies/

Can I do the same thing using Google Storage?

BTW, I also think about using Blobstore, but you need to upload images manually via Web interfaces to Blobstore. It is slow and less convenient compared with gsutil.

Thanks a lot!

Sheng

[Erevald Kullolli]

Maybe this could be achieved from ur server with .httaccess and using CNAME for your buckets.

But I still think GS should add this option.

[Google Cloud Storage Team]

Just to close the loop on this item, it's an excellent idea, IMO, but not currently supported by Google Cloud Storage. I've filed a feature request asking the engineering team to consider this in their future plans.

Thanks for the feedback,

Marc

Google Cloud Storage Team

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:11 AM, vtortola <vtor...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am also interested in this, let me know if you find a solution.

Cheers.

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