Curl is a popular command-line tool for interacting with HTTP services. This Perl script calculates the proper signature, then calls Curl with the appropriate arguments.

About This Sample

• Curl is a popular command-line tool for interacting with HTTP services.
• This Perl script calculates the proper signature, then calls Curl with the appropriate arguments.

What's New?

• 2007-11-05: Updates to support EU, added --doHead option, added a more secure mechanism to specify credentials.
• 2007-05-18: Updates to support signed HTTP requests to virtual hosted buckets.
• 2006-10-02: Updates for server access logging.

Prerequisites

• You must be signed up to use Amazon S3. You can sign up for Amazon S3 at http://aws.amazon.com/s3.
• This sample was built using Perl 5.6.0.
• This sample was built using Curl.

Running the Sample

• Run the sample using a command-line interface. For example:
  
  ./s3curl.pl --id=[aws-access-key-id] --key=[aws-secret-access-key] -- http://s3.amazonaws.com/[bucket-name]/[key-name]
• See the README file in the attached download for more information on running the sample.