>> Oh, I haven't read through all the low-level documentation, only the 
>> summary pages.
> 
> I would have thought it's in there, but...

So, if I stick a bunch of HTML pages on S3, I can basically host a website?

>> ...for somebody who doesn't yet understand what SOAP or REST are?
> 
> REST is "use HTTP to get and put data".

So, you upload stuff by making HTTP PUT requests? (As originally 
invisaged by Tim Burton?)

>> You can see where this is going, can't you? Yes, I admit it: It's way, 
>> way too slow to be remotely useful. Files that md5sum.exe can process 
>> in a split second take several minutes. I haven't figured out why yet.
> 
> I think you only *need* to sum some headers, but maybe it's the whole 
> file. I'm not sure I remember.

OK, well I'll go dig through the specs.

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