Comments on: Getting most out of Amazon S3

By: Lalit

Lalit — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:24:34 +0000

Amit,
You just have to change the $agevariable in upload.php
That should be it. You can also verify it by checking it in firebug by accessing it in the browser.

By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:50:19 +0000

Lalit,thanx for the script.

I used it but am unclear if i set i right.Can you help how can i verify (in php) ?. I used bucket explorer,selected properities but did not see cache-control details there.Am aware your script interacts with s3 and am not sure of parameter order like can i add $age at the end ? or should it be after the array(), ‘Content-type.’

Sorry for the newbie queries.

By: Mangal

Mangal — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:17:36 +0000

Thank you

I hv add age parameter in our s3 upload request.

By: Lalit

Lalit — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:49:40 +0000

It doesn’t affect the speed of download of images or other static content. It merely instructs the browser to use the cached version of the image or file instead of downloading it when it is requested 2nd time. That way the loading of that image or file is *much faster the 2nd time* as it is read directly from the disk.

By: Mangal

Mangal — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:57:29 +0000

Hi Lalit,

Does this method help in faster display of images from s3 to web page too?

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By: Lalit

Lalit — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:23:12 +0000

Fred,
Ideally both, if you are using both of them.

By default S3 doesn’t have any headers set, so stetting any one of them set is good enough. But to be on the safer side, you should set both.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:54:12 +0000

Hey Lalit, nice idea.

To prevent GET requests you need to modify the cache-control http header or the expire header?

I’ve reade the developer.yahoo.com section about cache control and expire headers and i’m a bit confused

Actually i’m using the Amazon s3 plugin for wordpress that modify automatically expire headers, am i ok with those settings?

Thanks
Fred

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:21:40 +0000

Another freeware Amazon S3 client that allows setting cache control and other HTTP headers is CloudBerry Explorer http://s3explorer.cloudberrylab.com/