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Updated on 2023-11-09 GMT+08:00
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Performing a Browser-Based Upload

If you have any questions during development, post them on the Issues page of GitHub. For details about parameters and usage of each API, see the API Reference.

Performing a browser-based upload is to upload objects to a specified bucket in HTML form. The maximum size of an object is 5 GB.

You can call ObsClient.createPostSignatureSync to generate request parameters for a browser-based upload. You can use Node.js code to simulate a browser-based upload. For details, see post-object-sample. You can also perform a browser-based upload with the following steps:

  1. Call ObsClient.createPostSignatureSync to generate request parameters for authentication.
  2. Prepare an HTML form page.
  3. Enter the request parameters in the HTML page.
  4. Select a local file and upload it in browser-based mode.

There are two request parameters generated:

  • Policy, which corresponds to the policy field in the form
  • Signature: which corresponds to the signature field in the form

The following sample code shows how to generate the parameters in a browser-based upload request.

// Import the OBS library.
// Use npm to install the client.
var ObsClient = require('esdk-obs-nodejs');
// Use the source code to install the client.
// var ObsClient = require('./lib/obs');

// Create an ObsClient instance.
var obsClient = new ObsClient({
       //Obtain an AK/SK pair using environment variables or import the AK/SK pair in other ways. Using hard coding may result in leakage.
       //Obtain an AK/SK pair on the management console. For details, see https://support.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/usermanual-ca/ca_01_0003.html.
       access_key_id: process.env.ACCESS_KEY_ID,
       secret_access_key: process.env.SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
       server : 'https://your-endpoint',
       signature : 'obs'
});

// Fill in parameters in the form.
var formParams = {
              // Set the object ACL to public-read.
              'x-obs-acl': obsClient.enums.AclPublicRead, 
              // Set the MIME type for the object.
              'content-type': 'text/plain', 
};

// Set the validity period for the browser-based upload request, in seconds.
var expires = 3600;

var res = obsClient.createPostSignatureSync({Expires:expires, FormParams: formParams});

// Obtain the request parameters. 
console.log('\t' + res.Policy);
console.log('\t' + res.Signature);

Code of an HTML form example is as follows:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>

<form action="http://bucketname.your-endpoint/" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Object key
<!-- Object name -->
<input type="text" name="key" value="objectname" />
<p>
ACL
<!-- Object ACL -->
<input type="text" name="x-obs-acl" value="public-read" />
<p>
Content-Type
<!-- Object MIME type -->
<input type="text" name="content-type" value="text/plain" />
<p>
<!-- Base64 code of the policy -->
<input type="hidden" name="policy" value="*** Provide your policy ***" />
<!-- AK -->
<input type="hidden" name="AccessKeyId" value="*** Provide your access key ***"/>
<!-- Signature information -->
<input type="hidden" name="signature" value="*** Provide your signature ***"/>

<input name="file" type="file" />
<input name="submit" value="Upload" type="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
  • Values of policy and signature in the HTML form are obtained from the value returned by ObsClient.createPostSignatureSync.
  • You can directly download the HTML form example: PostDemo.
Parent topic: Object Upload