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Re:Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests by zmmmmm on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:33PM (#19822011)
The only obvious thing that occurs to me is that bringing the bucket into the domain name puts it under the same-origin policy in the browser security model. Perhaps there are a significant number of people hosting their buckets and compromising security this way? Not something I have heard of but it seems possible. Makes me wonder if they are specifically not mentioning it because this is the reason and they know there are vulnerable applications in the wild and they don't want to draw attention to it?
Re:Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests by TheLoneTechNerd on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:39PM (#19822055)
Removing my comments because I can't seem to delete them...
Re:Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests by tedunangst on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:53PM (#19822168)
Does it bother you the domain is amazon.com and not com.amazon?
Re:Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:01PM (#19823583)
I can't read what you're replying to, but it absolutely bothers me. The current scheme has this completely random double reversal in the middle of the URL; it would have been so trivial to just make it actually big-endian, but instead we have this big-little-big endian nonsense. Far too late to change it now, but it is ugly and annoying.