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Error codes

S3 error codes returned by liteio and what they mean.

liteio returns S3-compatible XML error responses. Every error body looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Error>
  <Code>NoSuchBucket</Code>
  <Message>The specified bucket does not exist.</Message>
  <Resource>/my-bucket</Resource>
  <RequestId>abc123def456</RequestId>
</Error>

Common error codes

Code HTTP status Meaning
AccessDenied 403 The request signature is invalid, the credential is revoked, or the IAM policy denies the action.
AuthorizationHeaderMalformed 400 The Authorization header is present but syntactically invalid.
BucketAlreadyExists 409 A bucket with that name already exists and is owned by another account.
BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou 409 You already own a bucket with that name.
BucketNotEmpty 409 DeleteBucket was called on a non-empty bucket.
EntityTooLarge 400 Single-part object exceeds the 5 GB limit.
EntityTooSmall 400 A multipart part (other than the last) is smaller than 5 MB.
ExpiredToken 400 The STS session token has expired.
IncompleteBody 400 The request body is shorter than Content-Length declared.
InternalError 500 An unexpected server error. Check the server log for details.
InvalidAccessKeyId 403 The access key does not exist.
InvalidArgument 400 A query parameter or header value is invalid.
InvalidBucketName 400 The bucket name violates S3 naming rules.
InvalidObjectName 400 The object key is empty or otherwise invalid.
InvalidPart 400 One of the specified multipart parts does not exist or its ETag does not match.
InvalidPartOrder 400 Parts in CompleteMultipartUpload are not in ascending order.
InvalidRange 416 The Range header requests a range outside the object's size.
InvalidSignature 403 The request signature does not match.
MalformedXML 400 The request XML body is malformed.
MethodNotAllowed 405 HTTP method is not supported for this resource.
MissingContentLength 411 A streaming request is missing Content-Length.
NoSuchBucket 404 The specified bucket does not exist.
NoSuchKey 404 The specified object does not exist.
NoSuchUpload 404 The specified multipart upload ID does not exist or has been aborted.
NoSuchVersion 404 The specified object version does not exist.
NotImplemented 501 The requested feature is not implemented.
PreconditionFailed 412 A conditional request header (If-Match, If-Unmodified-Since) was not satisfied.
RequestTimeTooSkewed 403 The request timestamp differs from the server time by more than 15 minutes.
SignatureDoesNotMatch 403 The computed signature does not match the one in the request.
SlowDown 503 The erasure set is below read quorum or the server is overloaded.
TooManyBuckets 400 The account has reached the maximum allowed bucket count.
XAmzContentSHA256Mismatch 400 The x-amz-content-sha256 hash does not match the request body.
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