@hackage sssp1.1.1

SYNOPSIS sssp

DESCRIPTION SSSP is an HTTP proxy for S3 that can generate short-lived, signed URLs for stored objects. By providing a server separate from S3 that can be placed behind an authenticating proxy or firewall, SSSP allows a vari- ety of common security mechanisms to be used to limit access to S3 objects over HTTP while taking advantage of S3's considerable bandwidth and parallelism.

   Use-cases for SSSP include:

      o sharing of large files within an organization,

      o media service for public facing web applications,

      o distribution of internal software.

   SSSP supports configuration via environment variables or STDIN.

CONFIGURATION These settings can be passed as environment variables or fed to the server on STDIN in colon separated format. Both the new and old forms of the AWS credential environment variables are supported.

   # AWS Settings
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY              = account access key
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID           = account access key
   AWS_SECRET_KEY              = secret
   AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY       = secret
   AWS_REGION                  = eu-west-1, classic, us-east-1, ...

   # Storage settings
   SSSP_BUCKET                 = DNS friendly bucket name

   # Server settings
   SSSP_CONN                   = <ip>:<port> pair
   PORT                        = port to connect to, on localhost

   SSSP is fairly liberal when parsing STDIN. In fact,  Bourne  shell  .rc
   files, like the follow example, are parsed without error:

   export SSSP_BUCKET=dist
   export SSSP_CONN=*:6000

   However,  SSSP skips over lines that contain quotes ("') or that appear
   to require shell interpolation for their correct  interpolation  (lines
   containing $`{}).

REST INTERFACE URLs in SSSP point to one of two objects: an item or a listing. Items correspond to S3 objects; a GET retrieves a signed redirect to the object. Listings are a sequence of URLs, in ascending order; a GET retrieves the listing as a plaintext document, one URL per line.

   GET http://sssp.io/p/a/t/h         # Signed for the default time (10s).
   GET http://sssp.io/p/a/t/h?t=n     # Signed for n seconds.

   A PUT to an item sets the item's content. DELETEs can  be  singular  or
   plural.  A  plural DELETE removes only the objects generated by a list-
   ing.

   URLs are divided syntactically in to listings and items. A  URL  ending
   with a slash is always a listing.

   GET http://sssp.io/dist   # Signed redirect to an object called dist.
   GET http://sssp.io/dist/  # Listing of items below the key `dist'.

   To  make  it  easier to work with versioned or timestamped assets, SSSP
   supports the @hi and @lo meta-paths. These correspond to the names that
   sort  highest  and  lowest  according  to  semantic version sort, where
   non-digit chars serve to delimit arrays of numbers. For common forms of
   dates, these have the same effect as ASCII sort. (ASCII sort may speci-
   fied, as well; please the section WILDCARDS, below.)

   GET http://sssp.io/dist/x/x-0.1.1.tgz
   GET http://sssp.io/dist/x/x-0.1.4.tgz
   GET http://sssp.io/dist/x/x-0.2.11.tgz
   GET http://sssp.io/dist/x/x-0.2.9.tgz

   # Retrieval with @hi and @lo.
   GET http://sssp.io/dist/x/@hi  -307->  http://sssp.io/dist/x/x-0.2.11.tgz
   GET http://sssp.io/dist/x/@lo  -307->  http://sssp.io/dist/x/x-0.1.1.tgz

   Wildcards @hi and @lo used together with a count specify  a  set  wild-
   card; the result is a listing:

   GET http://sssp.io/dist/x/@lo2  -200->  dist/x/x-0.1.1.tgz
                                           dist/x/x-0.1.4.tgz

   Counts are the natural numbers starting at 0. The wildcard @* refers to
   "all the items".

   A counted wildcard, like @hi2, can be suffixed with a tilde to form its
   complement  --  so  @hi2~ is everything but the highest two items. This
   can be useful for bulk deletion of old/new things.

WILDCARDS @hi.semver, @lo.semver Key with highest or lowest version, according to a liberal- ized form of "semantic versioning", where version components are delimited by any non-digit characters.

      @hi.ascii, @lo.ascii
             Keys sorted ASCIIbetically, in the C locale (sorted purely by
             byte value).

      @hi, @lo
             The default sort, which is semantic version sort.

      @*, @*.semver, @*.ascii
             All  the items, in the default order (semantic version) or in
             a specified order.

   ASCII sort can be substantially more performant than  semantic  version
   sort,  because  S3 returns data in ASCII order and thus no real sorting
   is necessary.

EXAMPLES # Start web application. sssp < conf

   # Start web application with configuration provided by the environment.
   export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...
   export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
   sssp <<CONF
   SSSP_BUCKET: dist
   CONF

BUGS Listing results should really be URLs. The time to sign should really be configurable; or at least settable with a query parameter.