Updating Amazon S3 Instructions

[ryannagy]

Hey guys - It seems that somewhere you changed how you serve files served on S3? I had to change a product I was serving from S3 and each time that I uploaded the NEW file, the old one was still being served. I finally just deleted the URL on E-junkie. Saved the changes. Uploaded the file to S3 again (same URL) and saved it E-Junkie again.

And it worked. But I had to figure it out on my own after getting complaints from y customers.

Perhaps update the S3 instructions somewhere?

[E-junkie_Guru]

We haven't changed anything about how we pull remotely-hosted product files from Amazon S3; it still works the same as pulling remote files from anywhere else. I did review our instructions for setting up Amazon S3 with E-junkie and made some minor improvements for accuracy with S3's current UI (there was a now-unnecessary step in a couple places).

One thing might have been relevant to your case: it appears uploading a new version of an existing filename already on S3 does not retain the old version's access permissions, so you would have needed to deliberately Make Public the new version after uploading it. Whenever our system cannot access the current file at the item's Remote Product File URL, we can't tell if that file differs from the copy of it we'd cached from a previous download, so would just go ahead and serve the buyer a download from that cached copy as usual.