Request Parameters Common to All Actions

Action

The action to perform. For example: CreateQueue. For SOAP, the action is indicated by the name of the element in the SOAP request body (for more information, see Specifying the API Version).

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AWSAccessKeyId

Your Access Key ID. For example: 0AS7253JW73RRM652K02. For more information, see Your AWS Identifiers.

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Expires

The date and time at which the signature included in the request expires, in the format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, as specified in the ISO 8601 standard. Query requests must include either Timestamp or Expires, but not both. SOAP requests not using WS-Security for authentication must not contain an Expires; only the Timestamp is allowed. For information about handling message expiration for SOAP requests using WS-Security for authentication, see SOAP with WS-Security.

Query and SOAP (see description)

Signature

A request signature (for information, see Request Authentication). For example: Qnpl4Qk/7tINHzfXCiT7VbBatDA=.

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SignatureMethod

Required when you use signature version 2 with Query requests. For more information, see Query Request Authentication.

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SignatureVersion

For more information, see Query Request Authentication.

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Timestamp

The date and time the request is signed, in the format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, as specified in the ISO 8601 standard. Query requests must include either Timestamp or Expires, but not both. SOAP requests not using WS-Security for authentication must contain a Timestamp. For SOAP requests using WS-Security for authentication, see SOAP with WS-Security for information about handling message expiration.

Query and SOAP (see description)

Version

The API version to use, as specified in the WSDL. For example: 2008-01-01.

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