A new way to use Amazon S3

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 amazon aws firefox flock s3 comments

I've been working on an extension for Firefox/Flock for a while now that lets you interact in what I think is a more natural way: S3://

With Yosh's help, we've wrapped access to S3 in a protocol handler. In english this means if you go to s3://bucket/key it will access the key from the bucket, using your AWS credentials if you've set them up.

Features

Creation/deletion of buckets
Uploading multiple files
Uploading files by DND onto s3://bucket/prefix/
Partial listing of files s3://bucket/files_start_with_this
Deleting of files

And more, there is still more to come, but I've waited long enough to publish this.

Get it while it's hot!

If you want to try it out, you can install it from addons.mozilla.org, and be sure to report any bugs/ideas to the google group.

The project is open source, with the code residing in git at github.

Geeky notes

I used jQuery from chrome, including plugins such as Humanized Messages (see Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages by Aza Raskin), and blockUI.

I was heavily inspired by S3 Ajax Wiki by l.m.orchard (I'm still using a version of his S3Ajax.js actually ;) )

Responses to "A new way to use Amazon S3"

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 Britt says:
Super sexy and amazing. Glad this is finally out in the wild!
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 Phil Crosby says:
Totally sweet, been needing this for a long time! You showed me the teaser way too early
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 Phil Crosby says:
"Login to install this addon" -- that's pretty ballsy of them.