HeadBucket
This operation is useful to determine if a bucket exists and you have permission to
access it. The operation returns a 200 OK
if the bucket exists and you have
permission to access it.
If the bucket does not exist or you do not have permission to access it, the HEAD
request
returns a generic 404 Not Found
or 403 Forbidden
code. A message body is not
included, so you cannot determine the exception beyond these error codes.
To use this operation, you must have permissions to perform the
s3:ListBucket
action. The bucket owner has this permission by default and
can grant this permission to others. For more information about permissions, see Permissions Related to Bucket Subresource Operations and Managing Access Permissions to Your Amazon S3
Resources.
Request Syntax
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: Bucket
.s3.amazonaws.com
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner: ExpectedBucketOwner
URI Request Parameters
The request uses the following URI parameters.
- Bucket
-
The bucket name.
When using this API with an access point, you must direct requests to the access point hostname. The access point hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.s3-accesspoint.Region.amazonaws.com. When using this operation with an access point through the AWS SDKs, you provide the access point ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about access point ARNs, see Using Access Points in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide.
When using this API with Amazon S3 on Outposts, you must direct requests to the S3 on Outposts hostname. The S3 on Outposts hostname takes the form AccessPointName-AccountId.outpostID.s3-outposts.Region.amazonaws.com. When using this operation using S3 on Outposts through the AWS SDKs, you provide the Outposts bucket ARN in place of the bucket name. For more information about S3 on Outposts ARNs, see Using S3 on Outposts in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide.
Required: Yes
- x-amz-expected-bucket-owner
-
The account id of the expected bucket owner. If the bucket is owned by a different account, the request will fail with an HTTP
403 (Access Denied)
error.
Request Body
The request does not have a request body.
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.
Examples
Sample Request
This example illustrates one usage of HeadBucket.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:34:55 GMT Authorization: authorization string Host: myawsbucket.s3.amazonaws.com Connection: Keep-Alive
Sample Response
This example illustrates one usage of HeadBucket.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amz-id-2: JuKZqmXuiwFeDQxhD7M8KtsKobSzWA1QEjLbTMTagkKdBX2z7Il/jGhDeJ3j6s80 x-amz-request-id: 32FE2CEB32F5EE25 x-amz-bucket-region: us-west-2 Date: Fri, 10 2012 21:34:56 GMT Server: AmazonS3
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: