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PUT Object acl

Description

This implementation of the PUT operation uses the acl subresource to set the access control list (ACL) permissions for an object that already exists in a bucket. You must have WRITE_ACP permission to set the ACL of an object.

You can use one of the following two ways to set an object's permissions:

Depending on your application needs, you may choose to set the ACL on an object using either the request body or the headers. For example, if you have an existing application that updates an object ACL using the request body, then you can continue to use that approach.

Versioning

The ACL of an object is set at the object version level. By default, PUT sets the ACL of the current version of an object. To set the ACL of a different version, use the versionId subresource.

To see sample requests that use versioning, see Sample Request: Setting the ACL of a specified object version.

Requests

Syntax

The following request shows the syntax for sending the ACL in the request body. If you want to use headers to specify the permissions for the object, you cannot send the ACL in the request body. Instead, see the Request Headers section for a list of headers you can use.

PUT /ObjectName?acl HTTP/1.1
Host: BucketName.s3.amazonaws.com
Date: date
Authorization: authorization string (see Authenticating Requests (AWS Signature Version
		4))

<AccessControlPolicy>
  <Owner>
    <ID>ID</ID>
    <DisplayName>EmailAddress</DisplayName>
  </Owner>
  <AccessControlList>
    <Grant>
      <Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="CanonicalUser">
        <ID>ID</ID>
        <DisplayName>EmailAddress</DisplayName>
      </Grantee>
      <Permission>Permission</Permission>
    </Grant>
    ...
  </AccessControlList>
</AccessControlPolicy> 

Request Parameters

This implementation of the operation does not use request parameters.

Request Headers

You can use the following request headers in addition to the Common Request Headers.

Access Control List (ACL) Specific Request Headers

These headers enable you to set access permissions using one of the following methods:

Amazon S3 supports a set of predefined ACLs, known as canned ACLs. Each canned ACL has a predefined a set of grantees and permissions. For more information, see Canned ACL. To grant access permissions by specifying canned ACLs, you use the following header and specify the canned ACL name as its value. If you use this header, you cannot use other access control-specific headers in your request.

If you need to grant individualized access permissions on an object, you can use the following x-amz-grant-permission headers. When using these headers you specify explicit access permissions and grantees (AWS accounts or Amazon S3 groups) who will receive the permission. If you use these ACL specific headers, you cannot use x-amz-acl header to set a canned ACL.

For each of these headers, the value is a comma-separated list of one or more grantees. You specify each grantee as a type=value pair, where the type can be one of the following:

For example, the following x-amz-grant-read header grants list objects permission to the two AWS accounts identified by their email addresses.

x-amz-grant-read: emailAddress="xyz@amazon.com", emailAddress="abc@amazon.com"

For more information, go to Access Control List (ACL) Overview.

Request Elements

If you decide to use the request body to specify an ACL, you must use the following elements.

Grantee Values

You can specify the person (grantee) to whom you're assigning access rights (using request elements) in the following ways:

Responses

Response Headers

This implementation of the operation can include the following response headers in addition to the response headers common to all responses. For more information, see Common Response Headers.

Response Elements

This operation does not return response elements.

Special Errors

This operation does not return special errors. For general information about Amazon S3 errors and a list of error codes, see Error Responses.

Examples

Sample Request

The following request grants access permission to an existing object. The request specifies the ACL in the body. In addition to granting full control to the object owner, the XML specifies full control to an AWS account identified by its canonical user ID.

PUT /my-image.jpg?acl HTTP/1.1
Host: bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
Authorization: authorization string
Content-Length: 124

<AccessControlPolicy>
  <Owner>
    <ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
    <DisplayName>CustomersName@amazon.com</DisplayName>
  </Owner>
  <AccessControlList>
    <Grant>
      <Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="CanonicalUser">
        <ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeeExampleCanonicalUserID</ID>
        <DisplayName>CustomerName@amazon.com</DisplayName>
      </Grantee>
      <Permission>FULL_CONTROL</Permission>
    </Grant>
  </AccessControlList>
</AccessControlPolicy>

Sample Response

The following shows a sample response when versioning on the bucket is enabled.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap51T9AS1ed4OpIszj7UDNEHGran
x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
x-amz-version-id: 3/L4kqtJlcpXrof3vjVBH40Nr8X8gdRQBpUMLUo
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Server: AmazonS3

Sample Request: Setting the ACL of a specified object version

The following request sets the ACL on the specified version of the object.

PUT /my-image.jpg?acl&versionId=3HL4kqtJlcpXroDTDmJ+rmSpXd3dIbrHY+MTRCxf3vjVBH40Nrjfkd HTTP/1.1
Host: bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
Authorization: authorization string
Content-Length: 124
 
<AccessControlPolicy>
  <Owner>
    <ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
    <DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
  </Owner>
  <AccessControlList>
    <Grant>
      <Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="CanonicalUser">
        <ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
        <DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
      </Grantee>
      <Permission>FULL_CONTROL</Permission>
    </Grant>
  </AccessControlList>
</AccessControlPolicy>

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap51u8yU9AS1ed4OpIszj7UDNEHGran
x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
x-amz-version-id: 3/L4kqtJlcpXro3vjVBH40Nr8X8gdRQBpUMLUo
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Server: AmazonS3

Sample Request: Access permissions specified using headers

The following request uses ACL-specific request headers, x-amz-acl, and specifies a canned ACL (public_read) to grant object read access to everyone.

PUT ExampleObject.txt?acl HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com
x-amz-acl: public-read
Accept: */*
Authorization: authorization string
Host: s3.amazonaws.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: w5YegkbG6ZDsje4WK56RWPxNQHIQ0CjrjyRVFZhEJI9E3kbabXnBO9w5G7Dmxsgk
x-amz-request-id: C13B2827BD8455B1
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:24:12 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Server: AmazonS3

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