awsauth

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go-aws-auth

Go-AWS-Auth is a comprehensive, lightweight library for signing requests to Amazon Web Services.

It's easy to use: simply build your HTTP request and call awsauth.Sign(req) before sending your request over the wire.

Supported signing mechanisms

• Signed Signature Version 2
• Signed Signature Version 3
• Signed Signature Version 4
• Custom S3 Authentication Scheme
• Security Token Service
• S3 Query String Authentication
• IAM Role

For more info about AWS authentication, see the comprehensive docs at AWS.

Install

Go get it:

$ go get github.com/smartystreets/go-aws-auth

Then import it:

import "github.com/smartystreets/go-aws-auth"

Using your AWS Credentials

The library looks for credentials in this order:

1. Hard-code: You can manually pass in an instance of awsauth.Credentials to any call to a signing function as a second argument:

   awsauth.Sign(req, awsauth.Credentials{
   	AccessKeyID: "Access Key ID", 
   	SecretAccessKey: "Secret Access Key",
   	SecurityToken: "Security Token",	// STS (optional)
   })
   

2. Environment variables: Set the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables with your credentials. The library will automatically detect and use them. Optionally, you may also set the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable if you are using temporary credentials from STS.

3. IAM Role: If running on EC2 and the credentials are neither hard-coded nor in the environment, go-aws-auth will detect the first IAM role assigned to the current EC2 instance and use those credentials.

(Be especially careful hard-coding credentials into your application if the code is committed to source control.)

Signing requests

Just make the request, have it signed, and perform the request as you normally would.

url := "https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=ListRoles&Version=2010-05-08"
client := new(http.Client)

req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

awsauth.Sign(req)  // Automatically chooses the best signing mechanism for the service

resp, err := client.Do(req)

You can use Sign to have the library choose the best signing algorithm depending on the service, or you can specify it manually if you know what you need:

• Sign2
• Sign3
• Sign4
• SignS3 (deprecated for Sign4)
• SignS3Url (for pre-signed S3 URLs; GETs only)

Contributing

Please feel free to contribute! Bug fixes are more than welcome any time, as long as tests assert correct behavior. If you'd like to change an existing implementation or see a new feature, open an issue first so we can discuss it. Thanks to all contributors!

Documentation

Overview

Package awsauth implements AWS request signing using Signed Signature Version 2, Signed Signature Version 3, and Signed Signature Version 4. Supports S3 and STS.

Index

• func Sign(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request
• func Sign2(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request
• func Sign3(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request
• func Sign4(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request
• func SignS3(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request
• func SignS3Url(req *http.Request, expire time.Time, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request
• type Credentials

Functions

func Sign

func Sign(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request

Sign signs a request bound for AWS. It automatically chooses the best authentication scheme based on the service the request is going to.

func Sign2

func Sign2(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request

Sign2 signs a request with Signed Signature Version 2. If the service you're accessing supports Version 4, use that instead.

func Sign3

func Sign3(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request

Sign3 signs a request with Signed Signature Version 3. If the service you're accessing supports Version 4, use that instead.

func Sign4

func Sign4(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request

Sign4 signs a request with Signed Signature Version 4.

func SignS3

func SignS3(req *http.Request, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request

SignS3 signs a request bound for Amazon S3 using their custom HTTP authentication scheme.

func SignS3Url

func SignS3Url(req *http.Request, expire time.Time, cred ...Credentials) *http.Request

SignS3Url signs a GET request for a resource on Amazon S3 by appending query string parameters containing credentials and signature. You must specify an expiration date for these signed requests. After that date, a request signed with this method will be rejected by S3.

Types

type Credentials

type Credentials struct {
	AccessKeyID     string
	SecretAccessKey string
	SecurityToken   string `json:"Token"`
	Expiration      time.Time
}

Credentials stores the information necessary to authorize with AWS and it is from this information that requests are signed.