URL Source

Create URL Source

The URL source enables Pic Swift CDN to download your images using a specified URL.

Image demonstrating adding new url source via Pic Swift CDN dashboard

Once created take note of the source alias that is needed in the formation of your CDN url

Create URL Source Credential

URL sources also allow specifying credentials in the form of header name and header value that will be added to the download request to authenticate our requests

Image demonstrating adding new source credential for url via Pic Swift CDN dashboard

You could add for example do basic authentication where you have username: user and password: pass

Field	Value
Header Name	Header Key is Authorization
Header Value	Header Value is Basic dXNlcjpwYXNz Where dXNlcjpwYXNz is user and pass combined with “:” and encoded in base64 e.g Base64Encode("user:pass")

Once created take note of the source alias that is needed in the formation of your CDN url