1 Introduction

Common Lisp library for Amazon Web Services signing version 4.

Project home: https://github.com/rotatef/aws-sign4

This library implements the Signature Version 4 Signing Process, as described here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html

Highlights:

• Passes all tests in the test suite from Amazon.
• Tested on ABCL, ACL, CCL, CLISP and SBCL.
• Signing only, not tied to a specific http client library.

Example

See example.lisp for an example of using Drakma to make a request to SWF.

S3 supports presigned URL. This make is possible to give a web browser temporary access to download an object directly from S3. Example:

(let ((aws-sign4:*aws-credentials*
        (lambda ()
          (values "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE" "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY"))))
  (aws-sign4:aws-sign4 :region :eu-west-1
                       :service :s3
                       :host "s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com"
                       :path "/some-bucket/some-file"
                       :expires 300)) 
=> "https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/some-bucket/some-file?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE%2F20170908%2Feu-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20170908T121925Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=42c841837976e9c206f80554b50aa879fdb3aa4f3e6f61934ce8eba436205abf                      

API

Variable

AWS-SIGN4:*AWS-CREDENTIALS*

Bind this variable to a function returning two values, the access key and the secret key.

AWS-SIGN4:AWS-SIGN4 &key ...

Calculates the signature for a http request.

Parameters:

• region - String designator for the AWS region. Default "us-east-1".
• service - String designator for the AWS service name.
• method - String designator for the http method.
• host - The hostname/endpoint to for the request. Default is the value of the host header.
• path - The path part of the request URI.
• params - The query parameters of the URI as an assoc list.
• headers - The headers as an assoc list as an assoc list.
• payload - The payload, as a string or vector of octets. Strings are encoded to octets using UTF-8.
• date-header - The name of the date-header, :X-AMZ-DATE or :DATE. Default :X-AMZ-DATE.
• request-date - The request date as a local-time timestamp. Default (LOCAL-TIME:NOW).
• expires - Provides the time period, in seconds, for which the generated presigned URL is valid.
• scheme - Scheme used in presigned URL, defaults to https.

Returns seven values. Only the two first are needed, the others are useful for debugging.

• If expire is nil or not supplied, the value of "Authorization" header. If expire is supplied, the presigned URL.
• Value of "X-Amz-Date" or "Date" header.
• Canonical request
• String to sign
• Credential scope
• Signed headers
• Signature

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2 Systems

The main system appears first, followed by any subsystem dependency.

• aws-sign4

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3 Files

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• Lisp

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4 Packages

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• aws-sign4

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5 Definitions

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• Public Interface
• Internals

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