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Amazon S3 Operations : Amazon S3 Bucket Operations : Head Bucket

Head Bucket
Description
Returns bucket metadata values as HTTP headers. This operation is useful to determine if a bucket exists and you have permission to access it. This is an Amazon S3 compatible operation.
See Head Bucket for Amazon S3 operation details.
Requests
Syntax
HEAD http[s]://{datapathDNSname}/{bucket_name}/
Responses
Response Elements
The operation returns status only.
Notable status codes:
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Example
Sample Request
This request gets the header information for “bucket1”.
HEAD http://blackpearl-hostname/bucket1/ HTTP/1.1
Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK