AWS s3 upload api call returning 411 status

Question

I have been trying to perform AWS s3 rest api call to upload document to s3 bucket. The document is in the form of a byte array.

PUT /Test.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com
Authorization: **********
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 5039151
x-amz-content-sha256: STREAMING-AWS4-HMAC-SHA256-PAYLOAD
x-amz-date: 20180301T055442Z

When we perform the api call, it gives the response status 411 i.e Length Required. We have already added the Content-Length header with the byte array length as value. But still the issue is repeating. Please help to resolve the issue.

Answer 1

x-amz-content-sha256: STREAMING-AWS4-HMAC-SHA256-PAYLOAD is only used with the non-standards-based chunk upload API. This is a custom encoding that allows you to write chunks of data to the wire. This is not the same thing as the Multipart Upload API, and is not the same thing as Transfer-Encoding: chunked (which S3 doesn't support for uploads).

It's not clear why this would result in 411 Length Required but the error suggests that S3 is not happy with the format of the upload.

For a standard PUT upload, x-amz-content-sha256 must be set to the hex-encoded SHA-256 hash of the request body, or the string UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD. The former is recommended, because it provides an integrity check. If for any reason your data were to become corrupted on the wire in a way that TCP failed to detect, S3 would automatically reject the corrupt upload and not create the object.

See also https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/sigv4-auth-using-authorization-header.html