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A demo rails 3 app that delivers video with varying levels of secrecy

This is a Rails 3 application that demonstrates how to deliver video to a web browser over with varying levels of secrecy

It demonstrates with a series of git branches each step from a simplest, public method to a complex private one.

1. Video delivered from /videos/public directory on the host -- Baseline branch

2. Video delivered from /videos/public using send_file in the controller -- Send-file-branch

3. Video delivered from a remote url with public access --s3-public-branch

4. Video delivered from a query string authenticated Amazon S3 bucket the url is visible but is timed out in 5 minutes by Amazon S3-querystring-branch

5. Video delivered from a remote url from inside rails controller The url remains hidden --s3_send_file-branch

6. Video delivered from a query string authenticated Amazon S3 bucket from inside a rails controller Source url never exposed, delivered over ssl. --x-accell-redirect-s3

7. Video delivered from a query string authenticated Amazon S3 bucket from inside a rails controller over a ssl connection after a user login. source url never exposed, delivered over ssl to an authenticated user.

8. Performance, speed and memory analysis of the various methods.