Is It Feasible to Use rclone to Mount Our Application?

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We have an application similar to AWS S3, and we want to use rclone to mount our application. Is this feasible?

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Yes it is feasible in general as long as you can access your S3 provider/app using rclone

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Hi @kapitainsky
May I know what methods rclone will send to S3? I am building a backend as an S3 proxy to receive requests from rclone and then send them to aws S3.

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Not sure I understand. If you want to use S3 then it will be S3 protocol. If you need something else check what backends rclone supports:

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I mean, I built a web http server and I use rclone mount to get files from the web http server, I don't know if it will work.

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Sorry I am confused. You start asking about S3 to move swiftly to some web app.

Please explain in details what you want to use rclone for and for sure somebody will try to help.

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sorry, it was my mistake i want to set up a custom proxy server that receives requests from a Windows client using rclone and then forwards those requests to AWS S3, without having the client directly interacting with S3. This way, rclone is used to mount a custom web HTTP service instead of S3 directly. I just want to know if this is possible

Windows Client --> rclone --> Custom HTTP Proxy Server --> AWS S3
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rclone works just fine with http proxy, when accessing s3 providers, such as aws, wasabi and idrive.
on windows, i have done that.

check the docs
https://rclone.org/faq/#can-i-use-rclone-with-an-http-proxy

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Can you give more details, do you use nginx for http proxy or use Go to write an http proxy

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did you read the rclone doc link i shared? really, it is very simple.

  1. set http_proxy=http://proxyserver:12345
  2. run rclone
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Thank you very much. i got it