Can't access Images in buckets through url.

Hi, I'm trying to generate a url for an uploaded image in a bucket using file id.

Even though the user has an active session and read privilege to the image, I'm getting a 401 error saying user is not authorized.

As I understand this is due to credentials aren't being passed in the url and the resource in bucket dosent have read access to all.

Can I pass a JWT as a parameter to access the resource?

Is there any alternative approach I can access the image through a URL? I need to use it in CachedNetworkImage() Widget in flutter

TL;DR

Developers resolved the issue by passing the session secret in headers when the app user wants to access an image. The error was due to credentials not being passed in the URL. An alternative approach could be to pass the JWT as a parameter to access the resource. Use ImageProviders like Image.network() or CachedNetworkImage() in Flutter.

When you authenticate a user you get a session object back. Save the session secret for that specific user and when the app user wants to access an image you can pass the secret in the headers.

"x-appwrite-session" : "<session.secret>"

Image.network() or CachedNetworkImage() dosent take headers for the request.

They do

You have to use the ImageProviders

Image(image: NetworkImage("<url>", headers: <headers>)),

Thank you. It worked

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