Is there a way to know if my user has finished a download?

Question

For a project, I'll need to know if my user has finished to download a file to delete it on my remote server. Is there a way to do that ?

Is this for S3 or EC2? – Lorenzo Aiello Jul 21 '14 at 15:51 — Lorenzo Aiello, Jul 21 '14 at 15:51
Both. A file stored in my EC2 server or on S3. – cappie013 Jul 21 '14 at 16:00 — cappie013, Jul 21 '14 at 16:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

There are a couple ways of doing this, some more efficient than others, but here is what I've come up with.

Download through your application

If your application is downloading/passing the file through to the user you can trigger a function at the end of the stream to delete the file.

S3 Bucket Access Logging

S3 has access server logs (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/ServerLogs.html) that log information for each request. Depending on how your application is structured, you may be able to process these to see what's been accessed.

There may be up to a 30-60 minute delay in log availability

Other Options

There are some other options, though perhaps not ideal (without knowing the specifics of your application I don't know whether these are acceptable).

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