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Handling Unicode Data in Amazon S3 Headers

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

During a recent project, I ran into an issue when handling Unicode data in metadata headers in Amazon S3. Apparently, Amazon adds on "?UTF-8?B?" in front of any Unicode data and "?=" in end of the data. I could not find any existing standard that describes this or why it ...

Publishing web pages on Amazon’s S3 service

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Amazon recently released their new S3 web service designed to cheaply store any kind of data. Some enterprising users have started using this for web hosting! Here is an example (and related blog post). [NOTE: That I do not necessary agree with the "content" of the example]