Links in AdmiralCloud

Permanent Links

Dropsite links, press area links as well as mediahub links are permanent and never change. That also means, that everyone who has access to the link can access the content/application.

If you want to limit access to those AdmiralCloud applications, you have to use different security measures like authentication.

Media links

All our media links are time limited, which means they timeout and will not work after a certain amount of time. The time links are valid are dependent on several factors:

• type of media
• customer setting

The following table shows how we calculate the duration

Links for download purposes

If you request a media link for download (with parameter download = true) the expiration time is calculated based on fileSize only, regardless of the media type.

We assume a download speed of 50MBit/s. This speed can be customized (customer.individualConfiguration).

The link duration is calculated using fileSize divided by the download speed but is at least 3600 seconds.

General Thoughts

Please keep in mind, that a link – once issued – can not be revoked. So even if you unpublish your mediacontainer, the link will still work. The only exception is, if you delete the mediacontainer (and with it, the related media files).

So if you want to change and increase the expiration time in your customer settings, please make sure to consider these facts.