Friday, May 30, 2014

Using the BackgroundDownloader to retrieve private Blobs from Windows Azure Storage

Let's try to simplify your requirement. The BackgroundDownloader needs a HTTP/HTTPS URL (or FTP protocol) to perform the download operation. If you can get the URL constructed in such a way that it contains the access token (which will authenticate the request) and then start the HTTP download, then the BackgroundDownloader can download the files without performing any custom authentication.


Are you even at a point where you have the URL created that will let you do that? If you have the URL created that satisfies this, you can try downloading the file using Fiddler tool or even Internet Explorer and see how the download happens.


If the question is about how to create the URL to download the files from your Azure account, maybe you should ask this question on the Azure forums - about generating the HTTP URL that will let you download files in the background (or using IE).




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