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Is it possible to create an html form to allow web users to upload files directly to azure blob store without using another server as a intermediary? S3 and GAW blobstore both allow this but I cant find any support for azure blob storage.
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In the web app, select Select and upload files. Browse to your test file, and then select Open. The status indicates that the file was uploaded, and the file list was retrieved. In the Azure portal, select the name of the new container that you created earlier.
Run project locally to verify connection to Storage account. Your SAS token and storage account name are set in the src/azure-storage-blob. ts file, so you are ready to run the application. Select an image from the images folder to upload then select the Upload!
Click on the ... to the right of the Files box, select one or multiple files to upload from the file system and click Upload to begin uploading the files. To download data, selecting the blob in the corresponding container to download and click Download.
Do take a look at these blog posts for uploading files directly from browser to blob storage:
http://coderead.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/uploading-files-directly-to-blob-storage-from-the-browser/
http://gauravmantri.com/2013/02/16/uploading-large-files-in-windows-azure-blob-storage-using-shared-access-signature-html-and-javascript
The 2nd post (written by me) makes use of HTML 5 File API and thus would not work in all browsers.
The basic idea is to create a Shared Access Signature (SAS) for a blob container. The SAS should have Write permission. Since Windows Azure Blob Storage does not support CORS yet (which is supported by both Amazon S3 and Google), you would need to host the HTML page in the blob storage where you want your users to upload the file. Then you can use jQuery's Ajax functionality.
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