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london_utku
london_utku

Reputation: 1312

Google Storage creating Signed Urls with your own program rather using google cloud libraries

Google Storage allows using custom created signed urls as advertised in the following link : V4 signing process with your own program

What is the reason for that ? Will this be faster than requesting a signed url for each of the objects in google storage ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 263

Answers (1)

Doug Stevenson
Doug Stevenson

Reputation: 317467

The purpose is to provide a way to sign URL without needing one of the provided Cloud Storage client libraries. Since it's a rest API, you can call it from any language you want that can make HTTP requests and perform RSA signatures. From that page you linked:

This page describes an algorithm for implementing the V4 signing process so that you can create Cloud Storage RSA key signed URLs in your own workflow, using a programming language of your choice.

The example shown is in python, but the text makes it clear that:

The sample uses the Python programming language, but does not use the Cloud Storage Client Libraries:

Upvotes: 3

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