Question

I am using c# to create shared access signatures for new resources (The user should have create privileges to create new resources on my storage account).
The MS documentation is out of date and I can’t seem to get it to work using the different blog posts I’ve gone through.

Right now my code looks like so:

public static string GetBlobSharedAccessSignitureUrl(CloudBlobContainer container,string nameOfBlobToCreateSaSfor)
        {
            var blob = container.GetBlockBlobReference(nameOfBlobToCreateSaSfor);
            var policy = new SharedAccessBlobPolicy
                             {
                                 SharedAccessExpiryTime = DateTime.Now.AddHours(1),
                                 Permissions = SharedAccessBlobPermissions.Write | SharedAccessBlobPermissions.Read
                             };


            container.GetSharedAccessSignature(policy);
            string sas = blob.GetSharedAccessSignature(policy);

            return blob.Uri.AbsoluteUri + sas;

        }

and the returned url (for my local machine) looks like this (what seems to be correct)

http://127.0.0.1:10000/devstoreaccount1/photos/photos_4.jpg?sv=2012-02-12&se=2013-01-20T10%3A13%3A17Z&sr=b&sp=rw&sig=xxx

I started the Azure storage simulator and through fiddler tried to POST to this URL (also tried PUT)

I am getting errors (404 or 400 , depends on different code for this function that I have tried)

Do I need to do something else? (In the old examples I saw them create a resource in that location before hand – which I’ve tried as well but didn’t work either…)

Azure SDK version is 2.0 so the MS blog posts (and other tutorials) before October 2012 are broken (also according to MS dev blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2012/10/29/windows-azure-storage-client-library-2-0-breaking-changes-amp-migration-guide.aspx)

any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

If you’re posting through Fiddler or through your code, please make sure you add “x-ms-blob-type” request header and set it’s value as “BlockBlob”. Take a look at this sample code where it tries to upload a file:

                FileInfo fInfo = new FileInfo(fileName);//fileName is the full path of the file.
                HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(blobSaSUrl);
                NameValueCollection requestHeaders = new NameValueCollection();
                requestHeaders.Add("x-ms-blob-type", "BlockBlob");
                req.Method = "PUT";
                req.Headers.Add(requestHeaders);
                req.ContentLength = fInfo.Length;
                byte[] fileContents = new byte[fInfo.Length];
                using (FileStream fs = fInfo.OpenRead())
                {
                    fs.Read(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length);
                    using (Stream s = req.GetRequestStream())
                    {
                        s.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length);
                    }
                    using (HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse())
                    {
                    }
                }