HEAD Object
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retrieves metadata from an object without returning the object itself
HEAD /ObjectName
Requests
- Syntax
HEAD /ObjectName HTTP/1.1 Host: BucketName.hs2.hostway.com Date: date Authorization: signatureValue
- Parameters
This implementation of the operation does not use request parameters.
- Headers
- Range: Downloads the specified range bytes of an object.
- If-Modified-Since: Return the object only if it has been modified since the specified time
- If-Unmodified-Since: Return the object only if it has not been modified since the specified time
- If-Match: Return the object only if its entity tag (ETag) is the same as the one specified
- If-None-Match: Return the object only if its entity tag (ETag) is different from the one specified
- x-amz-request-payer: the requester knows he or she will be charged for the download
- Elements in body
This implementation of the operation does not use request elements.
Responses
- Headers
- x-amz-meta-* headers
- Elements
This implementation of the operation does not return response elements.
Examples
- Sample Request
HEAD /ObjectName HTTP/1.1 Host: BucketName.hs2.hostway.com Date: date Authorization: AWS signatureValue
- Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date : date Connection : keep-alive Content-Type: binary/octet-stream Content-Length : 0
