Common request headers

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Authorization

Any request to ColdStack must be authorized. Along with this heading Date, either a heading or a heading must be used x-amz-date. Read about the authorization methods in the corresponding sections of the manual.

Cache-Control

A set of directives for caching data according to RFC 2616 .

Content-​Disposition

The name under which Object Storage will offer to save the object as a file when unloading. RFC 2616 compliant .

Content-Encoding

Defines the encoding of the content according to RFC 2616 .

Content-Length

The length of the request body (without headers) in accordance with RFC 2616 . The header is required for all requests that transfer any data to Object Storage, for example, when loading an object.

Content-Type

The data type in the request. Eg text/html. For more information about data types, see the Wikipedia article List of MIME Types . Set by default binary/octet-stream.

Content-MD5

128-bit MD5 hash of the request body, encoded base64. Compliant with RFC 1864 specification . Object Storage uses a header to ensure that the data sent matches the received data.

Date

The date and time the request was sent. Format: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:57:35 GMT. When set x-amz-date, Object Storage ignores the header Date.

Expect

Expected code 100-continue. When loading data into Object Storage, an application can use the following logic: - Send a request without a body, but with the Expect: 100-continue header set. - Send a request with a body after receiving a response 100-continue. This request Expectshould not contain a header .

Expires

The expiration date of the answer. RFC 2616 compliant .

Host

The receiving host of the request. The header is required for HTTP / 1.1, but optional for HTTP / 1.0 requests.

x-amz-date

Date and time at the source of the request. Format: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:57:35 GMT. When set x-amz-date, Object Storage ignores the header Date.

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