From pete at unspace.ca  Thu Feb  7 17:21:31 2008
From: pete at unspace.ca (Pete Forde)
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:21:31 -0500
Subject: [s3-dev] I intend to investigate
Message-ID: <972231390802071421o2444b6c1i47cc7b930fe0cd58@mail.gmail.com>

Hey everybody,

Things seem to be pretty quiet on this list, even though things are
gradually changing with the S3 service itself. For example, see the
recent addition of the EU server farm.

I'm going to try and submit some patches that might fix a few issues
people have been having. For example, last year Jonas Arnklint asked
why he was not able to use aws-s3 to access his EU buckets.

The reason is that you cannot use the path style addresses with an EU
bucket; only virtual-hosted style access will work. This could cause
grief to anyone using buckets with upper-case letters, as
virtual-hosted buckets only work with lower-case bucket names.

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/BucketConfiguration.html

Of course, it would be nice if the Bucket.create() method accepted a
:location => "EU" option, too. Let me see what I can do.

In the meantime, my problem that I'm trying to solve is that
permissions supplied to a Bucket.create() don't seem to stick.

AWS::S3::Bucket.create("marcel_for_mayor", :access => :public_read)

The bucket is created with no read permissions, as are any files in the bucket.

Anyone have any insight into this?

Pete