You need to elaborate your use-case better so that people can respond. In general, API access from the client side is not recommended from the security perspective. You can proxy these via your AEM layer but the thing to keep in mind is the usage charges. (See your contract for the same). Hitting th...

Are you serving the clientlibs using the proxy servlet? If yes, in that case you need to add clientlibs as an allowed extension. Something like below. /allow-extensions { /type "allow" /extension '(clientlibs|gif|ico|js|png|swf|jpe?g|woff2?)' } If that's not the case, make sure that there is no den...

Your syntax looks fine as per the documentation so i am not sure why it doesn't work. Can you try this alternate way?   curl -u admin:admin -F file=@"<zip file relative path to current folder>" -F name="<package-name>" -F install=true http://localhost:4502/crx/packmgr/service.jsp

Are you able to see the XF Offer in target offers console?

For access control, use ACLs to hide the assets from authors. given the assets are only required to be accessed programmatically (TBH, without the detailed use-case its hard to validate if this is a good approach) you should anyway use a service user. Have you done any performance test for Assets AP...

This should work path=/content type=cq:Page nodename=*archive* operation=like

Why are you bringing in these files to AEM if you don't want them to be treated as assets? /content/dam is the designated area in AEM for assets. By placing these files outside DAM you will not get the assets UI to access these files. Review your use-case and decide if these files are not needed in ...

A workaround could be to put the RewriteRule inside a IF block. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/expr.html#examples 

Can you not use tagid predicate? https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/implementing/developing/full-stack/search/query-builder-predicates.html?lang=en#tagid

make sure that the files are in the same folder from where you are executing the curl command. Else provide the correct absolute or relative path.