S3 REST API and POST method

Question

I\'m using AWS S3 REST API, and after solving some annoying problems with signing it seems to work. However, when I use correct REST verb for creating resource, namely

Answer 1

In the original HTTP specification, the resource given in the payload of a POST request is "considered to be subordinate to the specified object" (i.e. the request URL). TimBL has said previously (can't find the reference) that it was modelled on the identically-named method in NNTP.