Does Azure have a way through REST API for getting a file from a VM?

Question

Looking at Operations on Virtual Machines, I see that there are many management tasks that I can do through the REST API. Is there any way I can stream a file, e.g. something like "GET/{filePath}" where {filePath} is like d:\stuff\somefile.txt or \\somenetworkpath\foo\bar.html?

Answer 1

No there is no direct way to get a file Path from Azure VM through REST API.

It's also not a secure manner to provide file Path using REST API

If you really want to access the File from outside the VM. You need to configure the FTP/SFTP for your file Path in Azure VM. This way it will be a secure way to access your files.

But remember that you will not get the filepath(d:\stuff\somefile.txt) using this. You will get access to the file(s) alone which is more likely as \\somenetworkpath\foo\bar.html