script to download file from Amazon S3 bucket

Question

Trying to write script to download file from Amazon S3 bucket.

Having trouble with the example on the cURL site. The script below produces:

The re

Answer 1

Avoid signing the request yourself, a lot can go wrong or be hard to do. For example, you should check that the date is set to GMT or use x-amz-date headers.

Another approach is to use the AWS Command Line Interface and so use $ aws s3 cp or $ aws s3 sync.