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The tempurl key is just a metadata attribute on the account with a 
particular name. swiftclient already supports setting metadata on 
accounts (and containers and objects); no changes are needed.

$ swift post -m temp-url-key:correcthorsebatterystaple

On 4/30/13 10:43 AM, Shrinand Javadekar wrote:
> Thanks for the reply John.
>
> We have seen a few customers struggle when setting up tempurl. Its easy
> to make them edit the proxy-server.conf file. But explaining the second
> step is a bit tedious and error-prone. I've been thinking of having a
> python script that does this. But something official would be better.
>
> Would it be a good idea to add capability to the swift command line
> utility to configure tempurl?
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:48 PM, John Dickinson <me at not.mn
> <mailto:me at not.mn>> wrote:
>
>     There are no plans to change the current implementation of tempurl.
>
>     In order to generate a tempurl that can be validated without relying
>     on a network call to a centralized authority service, the owner and
>     the service must have a shared secret. In the tempurl feature, this
>     shared secret is set as a metadata key on the account. This allows
>     the content owner to generate as many keys as necessary (without
>     having to call an external service) and allows Swift to validate
>     each one (without calling an external service).
>
>     Note that an auth token is only needed in order to save the shared
>     secret in the account metadata. Once the shared secret is set,
>     neither the owner of the content nor the user of the tempurl (ie
>     someone otherwise without access to the swift cluster) need a valid
>     auth token to generate or use a tempurl.
>
>     The only official docs for tempurl are at
>     http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/misc.html#module-swift.common.middleware.tempurl
>     (We should probably have some docs written for
>     http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/
>     on this feature.)
>
>     --John
>
>
>
>     On Apr 29, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Shrinand Javadekar
>     <shrinand at maginatics.com <mailto:shrinand at maginatics.com>> wrote:
>
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > Configuring tempurl in openstack Swift requires two steps:
>      >
>      > 1) Adding tempurl to the pipeline in proxy-server.conf
>      > 2) Setting the tempurl key on the account.
>      >
>      > Step #1 above is fairly straight forward. However, step #2 is
>     slightly complicated; at least as per [1]. It requires first
>     authenticating the user and getting an auth token. Then make an http
>     request with the X-Meta-Tempurl-key header to set the tempurl key.
>      >
>      > Are there easier ways to do this? If not, is it on the roadmap to
>     do this easily?
>      >
>      > Thanks in advance.
>      > -Shri
>      >
>      > [1]
>     http://failverse.com/using-temporary-urls-on-rackspace-cloud-files/
>      >
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