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Dimitrios Douras
Dimitrios Douras

Reputation: 506

Google cloud storage read object request to authenticate

I understand that if you set an object in a bucket as public-read then everyone can access it by sending a GET request to https://storage.googleapis.com/{bucket}/{file}. If now I want to set read permission only to authenticated users what is the simplest way to do that? For example I want a mobile app to send json requests to the above url and read the files. It seems like I need to provide an authorized e-mail or token, that has been set up in Google cloud console. But how to I add that to the request?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 211

Answers (1)

Brandon Yarbrough
Brandon Yarbrough

Reputation: 38399

The easiest way is to provide a signed URL to the authenticated user. Documentation here:

https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/accesscontrol#Signed-URLs

Any user who has the URL will be able to read that object for a certain amount of time. Your server can give them out like temporary passwords to download objects.

Upvotes: 1

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