[HTTP Instead Of HTTPS] How can I access google cloud storage with HTTP instead of HTTPS

[FengYikai710]

when I set the Option "RestEndpointOption" to "http://storage.googleapis.com", the access is denied while "https://storage.googleapis.com" is OK. Does GCP storage api support HTTP traffic?

[dbolduc]

Hm, from testing locally, I do not think so. When I follow https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/listing-objects#rest-list-objects just using the command line, I get:

$ BUCKET_NAME=...
$ curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
  "http://storage.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/BUCKET_NAME/o"

  SSL is required to perform this operation.

Let me loop in our storage expert. @ddelgrosso1 - Can you confirm this?

[ddelgrosso1]

@FengYikai710 JSON endpoints only accept HTTPS requests.

Docs can be found here.

[FengYikai710]

Thanks a lot! But there is another question confuses me. It seems like the libraries only support RestClient which Implements JSON API. I will be very grateful if you could tell me how to use XML API through google-cloud-cpp. @ddelgrosso1

[ddelgrosso1]

@FengYikai710 for Cloud Storage we currently only support JSON and gRPC transports through the C++ SDK. Those two transports are our recommendation. Is there a reason for needing to run over HTTP?

[FengYikai710]

@ddelgrosso1 Just compared to other clouds like AZURE and AWS which support both ways, no special reason for it. Thanks for the answers.