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Option to use AWS Cloudfront Signed Cookies instead of Signed URLs

Foliovision › Forums › FV Player › Requests and Feedback › Option to use AWS Cloudfront Signed Cookies instead of Signed URLs

  • Colleen 6 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    Discovered your product today and it was exactly what I needed. Very pleased with it so far, but I’ve run into one (rather serious for me) limitation: signed URLs don’t work with HLS content and there is no option to use signed cookies instead.

    Unfortunately, HLS or another streaming solution is really my only option because I have a very long (45+ minute) video. Just being able to use a stream has gone a long way towards getting me the security I wanted, but the extra layer of protection offered by an expiring URL or cookie would be really useful.

    While obvious in hindsight, it took me a long time to figure out that I couldn’t used signed URLs with HLS. It might be worth mentioning this early on in your really awesome and helpful CloudFront/S3 guides. I ended up finding it in a forum post after being absolutely flummoxed.

    If there’s another solution I can use in the mean time to restrict access further, I’d appreciate suggestions.

    Thanks,
    Nick

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  • Colleen 6 years ago

    Just went back and re-read through your guide on HLS and AWS WAF and I think this should be sufficient for the time being. Still wouldn’t mind seeing signed cookies, though.

    Thanks for making a good product and good documentation to go with it :)

    Lucia 6 years ago

    Hi Nick.

    I’m glad you’re enjoying our product. We’ll discuss adding this feature with our team.

    Thanks for your post.
    Sylvain

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