>> So, since you seem to know a bit about AWS, here's a few questions...
>>
>> 1. Can you access stuff stored in S3 using normal HTTP requests?
> 
> Yes.

OK. The documentation wasn't very clear about this...

>> 2. How do you upload stuff to S3? I mean, presumably there's a shiny 
>> webpage for uploading individual files, but what if I wanted to upload 
>> programmatically?
> 
> You use a library, depending on what language you're using, or you 
> implement your own.

I'd be in the latter group.

(There *is* actually a library already, but there's no documentation for 
it, so...)

>> 3. How does AWS authentication work?
> 
> Using HTTP with REST, you sign certain HTTP headers and the content 
> checksum (or something like that) with the secret key that Amazon gives 
> you when you sign up for an account. Which makes it almost REST.
> 
> Using HTTP with SOAP, you use the standard SOAP certificate stuff that's 
> built into decent SOAP libraries.

...right. So I actually need real crypto libraries to be able to use it? 
Oh well, that's the end of that then.

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