Retrieving the Metadata of an Object Version

If you only want to retrieve the metadata of an object (and not its content), you use the HEAD operation. By default, you get the metadata of the most recent version. To retrieve the metadata of a specific object version, you specify its version ID.

To retrieve the metadata of an object version

1. Set versionId to the ID of the version of the object whose metadata you want to retrieve.

2. Send a HEAD Object versionId request.

Example Retrieving the Metadata of a Versioned Object
The following request retrieves the metadata of version 3HL4kqCxf3vjVBH40Nrjfkd of my-image.jpg.

1. HEAD /my-image.jpg?versionId=3HL4kqCxf3vjVBH40Nrjfkd HTTP/1.1

2. Host: bucket.s3.amazonaws.com

3. Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT

4. Authorization: AWS AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:0RQf4/cRonhpaBX5sCYVf1bNRuU=

The following shows a sample response.

1. HTTP/1.1 200 OK

2. x-amz-id-2: ef8yU9AS1ed4OpIszj7UDNEHGran

3. x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC143432E5

4. x-amz-version-id: 3HL4kqtJlcpXroDTDmjVBH40Nrjfkd

5. Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT

6. Last-Modified: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT

7. ETag: "fba9dede5f27731c9771645a39863328"

8. Content-Length: 434234

9. Content-Type: text/plain

10. Connection: close

11. Server: AmazonS3