Unable to set website-redirect with http:// or https:// prefix

[csexton]

Passing in a URL into the --website-redirect option is considered invalid, despite including a valid prefix.

% aws s3 cp --website-redirect 'http://otherserver.com' /var/folders/mr/hp5q732j74b25ht_d_2tn8bh0000gn/T/redirect.XXXXXX.2RcCGLGT s3://mys3bucket.server.com/path/to/index.html
upload failed: ../../../../var/folders/mr/hp5q732j74b25ht_d_2tn8bh0000gn/T/redirect.XXXXXX.2RcCGLGT to s3://mys3bucket.server.com/path/to/index.html 
A client error (InvalidRedirectLocation) occurred when calling the PutObject operation: 
  The website redirect location must have a prefix of 'http://' or 'https://' or '/'.

I have tried with both http and https (however if I use https on a site that doesn't have a valid cert I get a ssl error). Also tried a variety of escaping and quoting the url including, none of which worked 😢

• aws s3 cp --website-redirect 'http://otherserver.com' file s3://mys3bucket/path/file
• aws s3 cp --website-redirect "http://otherserver.com" file s3://mys3bucket/path/file
• aws s3 cp --website-redirect http://otherserver.com file s3://mys3bucket/path/file
• aws s3 cp --website-redirect http:\/\/otherserver.com file s3://mys3bucket/path/file
• aws s3 cp --website-redirect https://otherserver.com file s3://mys3bucket/path/file
• aws s3 cp file s3://mys3bucket/path/file --website-redirect "http://otherserver.com"

I was able to roll back to version 1.4 and get the command to work again.

[kyleknap]

I can reproduce the issue as well. It makes sense that it works again in 1.4 because that was around the time we made the switch on some of the internals of the s3 commands.

The --website-redirect argument is trying to using the contents at that web address since it is a feature in the CLI that if you prepend an argument values with http:// or https://, it will try to retrieve the contents of the web address and use that as the value to the argument.

The solution is that we must black list that feature from this argument. Working on a fix for it.