Cannot get secure link with expires to work

[Duke Dougal]

Well you hit the mark thank you well done.

The problem was that I needed to wrap the entire curl url in quotes.

ugh.



On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 1:17 AM Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 09:14:11AM +1000, Duke Dougal wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > Hello I've tried every possible way I can think of to make secure links
> > work with expires.
>
> When I use your config on my test machine, it works for me.
>
> So it looks like what you have is fundamentally correct; there is
> obviously something wrong somewhere, but it is likely something small.
>
> > No matter what I try, I cannot get it to work when I try to uses the
> expire
> > time.
>
> Can you copy-paste the command you use to test things; and perhaps show
> the log line for that request?
>
> > The command that fails:
> >
> >    ubuntu at ip-172-31-34-191:/var/www$ curl
> >
> http://127.0.0.1/html/index.html?md5=FsRb_uu5NsagF0hA_Z-OQgexpires=2147483647
>
> As was pointed out - there should be & in the middle of that.
>
> If you "merely" add &, you will probably see mostly-the-same response --
> because your shell will read an unescaped & as "end of command".
>
> My guess is that your log line will show the request for
> /html/index.html?md5=FsRb_uu5NsagF0hA_Z-OQg, which will (correctly)
> return 403.
>
> What happens if you do
>
> $ curl '
> http://127.0.0.1/html/index.html?md5=FsRb_uu5NsagF0hA_Z-OQg&expires=2147483647
> '
>
> (with &, and with the whole argument shell-quoted in '')?
>
> Cheers,
>
>         f
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