Nice. Just looked through the code. Would like to add this to our solution but it seems to be hardcoded to keystone (we use swauth).
I might look into getting it working with swauth though - would be a nice addition. Thanks for sharing! Mvh / Best regards Morten Møller Riis Gigahost ApS m...@gigahost.dk On Jul 18, 2013, at 10:20 PM, Koert van der Veer <ko...@cloudvps.com> wrote: > We've been offering public object store services for roughly half a year now. > In the past few months, we received a wide range of responses from our > customers. Tech-savvy customers are very happy with this offering, and quite > a few are busy migrating their existing storage solutions to our object > store. > > However, we find that several customers, especially those coming from shared > hosting solutions, struggle to grasp the abstract ideas behind object > storage. They struggle with two things: authentication against keystone, > which they consider too complicated, and having a user interface that is > totally distinct from the actual object store. > > To help these users, we've developed two middleware projects: swift_basicauth > and better_staticweb. swift_basicauth allows web browsers and general purpose > HTTP clients to access object stores, without having to contact keystone. The > middleware interprets the authentication, and then fetches a token based on > that authentication. With that token, the rest of the request is processed. > This enables a wide range of HTTP clients to access the object store. While > the primary aim was unlocking the objectstore for web-browsers, we quickly > discovered the convenience of using it with curl: "curl --user uid:pwd -X PUT > "https://static.example.net/the_file"; -T the_file". > > The second middleware we developed was named better_staticweb (sorry for the > pretentious name). It is similar to static-web, in fact is is mostly > compatible. However, web-listings is enabled by default, even for > authenticated access (useful in combination with basic auth). It enables the > user to visualize his object store as a less-abstract concept. > Better_staticweb looks at the http Accept header to determine whether or not > to respond with a listing. It still listens to the same meta-headers, but it > assumes different defaults. We've gone through quite a bit of testing to > guarantee that it doesn't interfere with regular API usage. > > Both middleware projects are released under the Apache 2.0 licence, and can > be found on our github page: > https://github.com/CloudVPS/better-staticweb > https://github.com/CloudVPS/swift-basicauth > > -- > > Koert van der Veer - Senior Developer @ CloudVPS > CloudVPS - High Availability Cloud Solutions > w: http://www.cloudvps.com/ > m: ko...@cloudvps.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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