Re: [Duplicity-talk] Difference between s3 and s3+http URL schemes

[Jesper Särnesjö]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jesper Särnesjö wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> What is the difference (if any) between the s3 and s3+http URL
>> schemes? The duplicity man page gives s3://host/bucket_name[/prefix]
>> and s3+http://bucket_name[/prefix] as examples.
>>
>> In addition to the man page, I have read Amazon's Getting Started
>> Guide for S3, and various blog posts I found via Google, but I'm none
>> the wiser. ;)
>>
>> In case it's relevant, I am following this guide [1], and I live in
>> Europe, so I'm using --s3-use-new-style and --s3-european-buckets.
>
> There should not be any difference except that on the s3+http you supply
> the host name.  The s3 protocol uses the default Amazon host, kind of a
> shortcut.

Thanks for the quick response! But... isn't it the other way around
(i.e. you supply the hostname for s3, not for s3+http)? That is what
the examples seem to say, anyway.

> Thanks for the pointer to the guide.

You're most welcome!

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Jesper Särnesjö
http://jesper.sarnesjo.org/