How to get the md5sum of a file on Amazon's S3

Question

If I have existing files on Amazon\'s S3, what\'s the easiest way to get their md5sum without having to download the files?

Thanks

Answer 1

This works for me. In PHP, you can compare the checksum between local file e amazon file using this:

    // get localfile md5
    $checksum_local_file = md5_file ( '/home/file' );

    // compare checksum between localfile and s3file    
    public function compareChecksumFile($file_s3, $checksum_local_file) {

        $Connection = new AmazonS3 ();
        $bucket = amazon_bucket;
        $header = $Connection->get_object_headers( $bucket, $file_s3 );

        // get header
        if (empty ( $header ) || ! is_object ( $header )) {
            throw new RuntimeException('checksum error');
        }
        $head = $header->header;
        if (empty ( $head ) || !is_array($head)) {
            throw new RuntimeException('checksum error');
        }
        // get etag (md5 amazon)
        $etag = $head['etag'];
        if (empty ( $etag )) {
            throw new RuntimeException('checksum error');
        }
        // remove quotes
        $checksumS3 = str_replace('"', '', $etag);

        // compare md5
        if ($checksum_local_file === $checksumS3) {
            return TRUE;
        } else {
            return FALSE;
        }
    }