Amazon S3 direct file upload from client browser – private key disclosure

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I think what you want is Browser-Based Uploads Using POST.

Basically, you do need server-side code, but all it does is generate signed policies. Once the client-side code has the signed policy, it can upload using POST directly to S3 without the data going through your server.

Here’s the official doc links:

Diagram: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingHTTPPOST.html

Example code: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/HTTPPOSTExamples.html

The signed policy would go in your html in a form like this:

<html>
  <head>
    ...
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    ...
  </head>
  <body>
  ...
  <form action="http://johnsmith.s3.amazonaws.com/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    Key to upload: <input type="input" name="key" value="user/eric/" /><br />
    <input type="hidden" name="acl" value="public-read" />
    <input type="hidden" name="success_action_redirect" value="http://johnsmith.s3.amazonaws.com/successful_upload.html" />
    Content-Type: <input type="input" name="Content-Type" value="image/jpeg" /><br />
    <input type="hidden" name="x-amz-meta-uuid" value="14365123651274" />
    Tags for File: <input type="input" name="x-amz-meta-tag" value="" /><br />
    <input type="hidden" name="AWSAccessKeyId" value="AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE" />
    <input type="hidden" name="Policy" value="POLICY" />
    <input type="hidden" name="Signature" value="SIGNATURE" />
    File: <input type="file" name="file" /> <br />
    <!-- The elements after this will be ignored -->
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload to Amazon S3" />
  </form>
  ...
</html>

Notice the FORM action is sending the file directly to S3 – not via your server.

Every time one of your users wants to upload a file, you would create the POLICY and SIGNATURE on your server. You return the page to the user’s browser. The user can then upload a file directly to S3 without going through your server.

When you sign the policy, you typically make the policy expire after a few minutes. This forces your users to talk to your server before uploading. This lets you monitor and limit uploads if you desire.

The only data going to or from your server is the signed URLs. Your secret keys stay secret on the server.

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