Use of Virtual Host S3 Bucket Names

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Having an issue where the file path does not have a bucket name in it as we would like to use the following:

s3://[email protected]/folder/folder/

where my.bucket.name.com CNAME is my.bucket.name.com.s3.amazonaws.com

The documentation on this feature is here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/VirtualHosting.html

Any bucket with a DNS-compatible name can be referenced as follows: http://[BucketName].s3.amazonaws.com/[Filename], for example, http://images.johnsmith.net.s3.amazonaws.com/mydog.jpg. By using CNAME, you can map images.johnsmith.net to an Amazon S3 host name so that the previous URL could become http://images.johnsmith.net/mydog.jpg.

The above URI does not work as there is NOT a bucket name after the endpoint. I have tried the following as well with no success.

s3://[email protected]//folder/folder/ {empty bucket}

The following will work:

s3://[email protected]/my.bucket.name.com/folder/folder/

There is a call to ListAllMyBuckets within the S3FS library that forces permissions to be able to ListAllMyBuckets to the following resource "s3.amazonaws.com" in the above example. I would not like to have to do that but allow the use of the original sample at the top

s3://[email protected]/folder/folder/ { The bucket is in the endpoint..virtual hosting}

This would then only require the AWS user to have permissions to ListAllMyBuckets to the resource which is "my.bucket.name.com"