Is there any open source app I can upload to Google App Engine, that proxies all requests (including POST and cookies) to a hostname that I choose?
Here you can find a guide and the source code to set up a GAE proxy based on Mirrorr, an open-source web caching project by Brett Slatkin.
Here is a list of other proxy projects.
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I'm running a GAE Standard Env. node/express app.
How can I configure Basic HTTP Authentication?
Is it possible to configure it with app.yaml?
I've read the docs, and did a lot of searching and so far it seems like I'll have to use my Express server to handle it. That seems weird because it requires that I have a server.
What if I wanted to serve a static HTML page? Then the express solution falls apart.
In nginx I can do this:
server {
...
auth_basic "Administrator’s Area";
auth_basic_user_file conf/htpasswd;
}
Is there an equivalent with app.yaml in GAE?
Thanks for your help =)
I think its not possible to do this type of authentication, but you have other options
- google sign in
- oauth
- firebase
* users api is available but not for node standard app engine
If you wanted to serve static html you might store it in Google Cloud Storage and Cloud storage has its own permissions options
I've been trying to do this for a while, but I'm confused as to the difference between the two applications.
I know that endpoints helps you expose an API and generate the client libraries that allow you to interact with your Android app.
But in the examples, it seems as though endpoints is the only code you write for the backend at all.
I thought that app engine was what the actual application ran on - that is, do I need a separate project with the app engine backend, then my android studio project with the Android app and the endpoints API, or does writing the endpoints API also serve as the app engine backend?
The endpoints backend API is just a piece of a GAE app functionality.
If you only have that functionality in your app you can extend it by adding the desired stuff to the existing app.yaml file (and the related app code), you don't have to create a new app. Especially if the endpoints functionality and the additional desired functionality are related.
You can also add endpoints backend support to an existing GAE app by merging the endpoints backend app.yaml content into the existing app's app.yaml file and adding the class file and API server file to the app's code.
My team is exploring the possibility of cross-application communication within Google App Engine environment. We have our core Python app running on GAE, and a new NodeJS App running on GAE Managed VM. So far we could only find information on URL fetch service supported in Python, Java, and Go.
Does anyone know if URL fetch service is available in Node running on GAE managed VM?
Or is there other solution my team can use for high-performing cross-application communication within Google's network infrastructure for efficiency and scaling purposes.
The URL Fetch service is not available for NodeJS on app engine. However, for cross-application communication, you can use Google Cloud Pub/Sub. You can use the Google Cloud Client library for NodeJS to access the Pub/Sub service from a NodeJS app running on a flexible VM.
I'm trying to use a subdomain to serve a matching version id with Google App Engine and Google Apps. I've gone through the documentation but it's still unclear to me.
On this page regarding custom domains, it says I'm in a special case for using Google Apps. test.example.com -> to load "test" version of the application.
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/domain -
Note that the instructions on this page are for App Engine apps that use an ordinary HTTP connection and are not served through Google Apps. Here are some related procedures that require different instructions:
This leads me to here https://support.google.com/a/answer/91080
It looks like the only way to add this subdomain in Google Apps is the Sites URL field.
Will the Sites URL correspond to the App Engine version ID?
You only need to use Google Apps to map an appengine app to a domain if you need https. Right now, Google Apps is the only way you can upload an SSL cert - hence this restriction.
If you do map your appengine app to a domain through google apps, you can do what you want by using wildcard subdomain mapping. Read more here..
The whole process is tedious, slow, and painful, and thats only when its not confusing, so put aside a good few hours to make all the changes and wait for DNS to propagate.
How do I ensure that only a specific Google App Engine project can communicate with another web endpoint located in an other GAE Project.
I want to lock communication between App Engine Projects.
What would be the best way to accomplish this ?
The best way would be to make use of the request header X-Appengine-Inbound-Appid within your App Engine web endpoint application to assert the identity of your specific App Engine app that should be allowed to communicate. This header is added to the request by the URLFetch service and is not user modifiable.
Detail documentation can be found at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/appidentity/#Python_Asserting_identity_to_other_App_Engine_apps
Not tested, but I thought application itself is admin, so how about like this?
Add login: admin to all handlers in app.yaml
Go to Google Developer Console, project -> Permissions, then Add project account which you want to communicate with into service accounts.
I hope it works.