DELETE Bucket

The DELETE Bucket operation deletes a named bucket only if the bucket is empty.

Note

Before a bucket can be deleted, all object must be deleted from the bucket and all ongoing multipart uploads must be aborted.

Requests

Request Syntax

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: {{BucketName}}.{{ConnectorName}}.{{StorageService}}.com
Date: {{date}}
Authorization: {{authenticationInformation}

Request Parameters

The DELETE Bucket operation does not use Request Parameters.

Request Headers

Implementation of the DELETE Bucket operation uses only request headers that are common to all operations (refer to Common Request Headers).

Request Elements

The DELETE Bucket operation does not use request elements.

Responses

Response Headers

Implementation of the DELETE Bucket operation uses only response headers that are common to all operations (refer to Common Response Headers).

Response Elements

The DELETE Bucket operation does not return response elements.

Host: documentation.s3.scality.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:12:34 GMT

Examples

Deleting the “documentation” Bucket

Request Sample

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: documentation.s3.scality.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:12:34 GMT
Authorization: AWS pat:BAupPCpkyeIGKH2s5Je4Bc32bc=

Response Sample

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:12:34 GMT
Server: RestServer/1.0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close