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Amazon S3 pre-signed URL with Amazon SDK for PHP Version 3

You can authenticate certain types of requests by passing the required information as query-string parameters instead of using the Authorization HTTP header. This is useful for enabling direct third-party browser access to your private Amazon S3 data, without proxying the request. The idea is to construct a “pre-signed” request and encode it as a URL that another user can use. Additionally, you can limit a pre-signed request by specifying an expiration time.

Create a pre-signed URL for an HTTP GET request

The following code example shows how to create a pre-signed URL for an HTTP GET request by using the SDK for PHP.

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Aws\S3\S3Client;

$s3Client = new S3Client([
    'region' => 'us-west-2',
]);

// Supply a CommandInterface object and an expires parameter to the `createPresignedRequest` method.
$request = $s3Client->createPresignedRequest(
    $s3Client->getCommand('GetObject', [
        'Bucket' => 'amzn-s3-demo-bucket',
        'Key' => 'demo-key',
    ]),
    '+1 hour'
);

// From the resulting RequestInterface object, you can get the URL.
$presignedUrl = (string) $request->getUri();

echo $presignedUrl;

The API reference for the createPresignedRequestmethod provides more details.

Someone else can use the $presignedUrl value to retrieve the object within the next hour. When the HTTP GET request is made—using a browser, for example—it appears to the S3 service that the call is coming from the user who created the pres-signed URL.

Create a pre-signed URL for an HTTP PUT request

The following code example shows how to create a pre-signed URL for an HTTP PUT request by using the SDK for PHP.

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Aws\S3\S3Client;

$s3Client = new S3Client([
    'region' => 'us-west-2',
]);

$request = $s3Client->createPresignedRequest(
    $s3Client->getCommand('PutObject', [
        'Bucket' => 'amzn-s3-demo-bucket',
        'Key' => 'demo-key',
    ]),
    '+1 hour'
);

// From the resulting RequestInterface object, you can get the URL.
$presignedUrl = (string) $request->getUri();

Someone else can now use the pre-signed URL in an HTTP PUT request to upload a file:

use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Request;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Response;

// ...

function uploadWithPresignedUrl($presignedUrl, $filePath, $s3Client): ?Response
{
    // Get the HTTP handler from the S3 client.
    $handler = $s3Client->getHandlerList()->resolve();
    
    // Create a stream from the file.
    $fileStream = new Stream(fopen($filePath, 'r'));
    
    // Create the request.
    $request = new Request(
        'PUT',
        $presignedUrl,
        [
            'Content-Type' => mime_content_type($filePath),
            'Content-Length' => filesize($filePath)
        ],
        $fileStream
    );
    
    // Send the request using the handler.
    try {
        $promise = $handler($request, []);
        $response = $promise->wait();
        return $response;
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        echo "Error uploading file: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n";
        return null;
    }
}