Amazon Route 53 Authentication Tool for Curl

About This Sample

• Curl is a popular command-line tool for interacting with HTTP services.
• This Perl script calculates the proper Amazon Route 53 authentication signature, then calls Curl with the appropriate arguments.

Prerequisites

• You must be signed up to use Amazon Route 53. You can sign up for Amazon Route 53 at http://aws.amazon.com/route53.
• This sample was tested with Perl 5.8.8.
• The following Perl modules, which you can download from CPAN:
  • Digest::HMAC_SHA1
  • FindBin
  • MIME::Base64
  • Getopt::Long
  • File::Temp
  • File::Basename
  • Fcntl
  • IO::Handle
• This sample requires version 7.15.5 or newer of Curl.

Running the Sample

• Run the sample using a command-line interface. For example:

  ./dnscurl.pl --keyfile ~/.aws-secrets --keyname my-aws-account
    -- -v -H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8"
    https://route53.amazonaws.com/2010-10-01/hostedzone