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							A small utility to sign [vanilla Node.js http(s)](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html) request options using Amazon's
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							[AWS Signature Version 4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html).
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							If you want to sign and send AWS requests using [`fetch()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API), then check out [aws4fetch](https://github.com/mhart/aws4fetch) – otherwise you can also bundle this library for use [in older browsers](./browser).
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							The only AWS service I know of that *doesn't* support v4 is
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							[SimpleDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSimpleDB/latest/DeveloperGuide/SDB_API.html)
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							(it only supports [AWS Signature Version 2](https://github.com/mhart/aws2)).
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							It also provides defaults for a number of core AWS headers and
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							request parameters, making it very easy to query AWS services, or
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							build out a fully-featured AWS library.
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							Example
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							```javascript
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							var https = require('https')
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							var aws4  = require('aws4')
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							// to illustrate usage, we'll create a utility function to request and pipe to stdout
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							function request(opts) { https.request(opts, function(res) { res.pipe(process.stdout) }).end(opts.body || '') }
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							// aws4 will sign an options object as you'd pass to http.request, with an AWS service and region
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							var opts = { host: 'my-bucket.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com', path: '/my-object', service: 's3', region: 'us-west-1' }
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							// aws4.sign() will sign and modify these options, ready to pass to http.request
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							aws4.sign(opts, { accessKeyId: '', secretAccessKey: '' })
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							// or it can get credentials from process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, etc
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							aws4.sign(opts)
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							// for most AWS services, aws4 can figure out the service and region if you pass a host
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							opts = { host: 'my-bucket.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com', path: '/my-object' }
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							// usually it will add/modify request headers, but you can also sign the query:
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							opts = { host: 'my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com', path: '/?X-Amz-Expires=12345', signQuery: true }
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							// and for services with simple hosts, aws4 can infer the host from service and region:
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							opts = { service: 'sqs', region: 'us-east-1', path: '/?Action=ListQueues' }
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							// and if you're using us-east-1, it's the default:
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							opts = { service: 'sqs', path: '/?Action=ListQueues' }
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							aws4.sign(opts)
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							console.log(opts)
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							/*
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							{
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							  host: 'sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
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							  path: '/?Action=ListQueues',
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							  headers: {
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							    Host: 'sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
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							    'X-Amz-Date': '20121226T061030Z',
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							    Authorization: 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=ABCDEF/20121226/us-east-1/sqs/aws4_request, ...'
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							  }
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							}
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							*/
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							// we can now use this to query AWS
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							request(opts)
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							/*
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							<?xml version="1.0"?>
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							<ListQueuesResponse xmlns="https://queue.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-11-05/">
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							...
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							*/
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							// aws4 can infer the HTTP method if a body is passed in
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							// method will be POST and Content-Type: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8'
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							request(aws4.sign({ service: 'iam', body: 'Action=ListGroups&Version=2010-05-08' }))
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							/*
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							<ListGroupsResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
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							...
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							*/
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							// you can specify any custom option or header as per usual
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							request(aws4.sign({
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							  service: 'dynamodb',
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							  region: 'ap-southeast-2',
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							  method: 'POST',
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							  path: '/',
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							  headers: {
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							    'Content-Type': 'application/x-amz-json-1.0',
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							    'X-Amz-Target': 'DynamoDB_20120810.ListTables'
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							  body: '{}'
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							}))
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							{"TableNames":[]}
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							...
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							*/
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							// you can also specify extra headers to ignore during signing
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							request(aws4.sign({
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							  host: '07tjusf2h91cunochc.us-east-1.aoss.amazonaws.com',
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							  method: 'PUT',
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							  path: '/my-index',
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							  body: '{"mappings":{}}',
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							  headers: {
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							    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
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							    'X-Amz-Content-Sha256': 'UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD'
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							  extraHeadersToIgnore: {
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							    'content-length': true
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							  }
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							}))
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							// and headers to include that would normally be ignored
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							request(aws4.sign({
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							  service: 'mycustomservice',
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							  path: '/whatever',
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							  headers: {
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							    'Range': 'bytes=200-1000, 2000-6576, 19000-'
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							  },
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							  extraHeadersToInclude: {
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							    'range': true
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							  }
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							// The raw RequestSigner can be used to generate CodeCommit Git passwords
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							var signer = new aws4.RequestSigner({
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							  service: 'codecommit',
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							  host: 'git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com',
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							  method: 'GIT',
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							  path: '/v1/repos/MyAwesomeRepo',
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							})
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							var password = signer.getDateTime() + 'Z' + signer.signature()
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							// see example.js for examples with other services
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							API
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							### aws4.sign(requestOptions, [credentials])
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							Calculates and populates any necessary AWS headers and/or request
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							options on `requestOptions`. Returns `requestOptions` as a convenience for chaining.
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							`requestOptions` is an object holding the same options that the Node.js
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							[http.request](https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback)
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							function takes.
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							The following properties of `requestOptions` are used in the signing or
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							populated if they don't already exist:
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							- `hostname` or `host` (will try to be determined from `service` and `region` if not given)
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							- `method` (will use `'GET'` if not given or `'POST'` if there is a `body`)
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							- `path` (will use `'/'` if not given)
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							- `body` (will use `''` if not given)
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							- `service` (will try to be calculated from `hostname` or `host` if not given)
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							- `region` (will try to be calculated from `hostname` or `host` or use `'us-east-1'` if not given)
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							- `signQuery` (to sign the query instead of adding an `Authorization` header, defaults to false)
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							- `extraHeadersToIgnore` (an object with lowercase header keys to ignore when signing, eg `{ 'content-length': true }`)
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							- `extraHeadersToInclude` (an object with lowercase header keys to include when signing, overriding any ignores)
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							- `headers['Host']` (will use `hostname` or `host` or be calculated if not given)
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							  if not given and there is a `body`)
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							- `headers['Date']` (used to calculate the signature date if given, otherwise `new Date` is used)
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							Your AWS credentials (which can be found in your
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							[AWS console](https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/securityCredentials))
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							can be specified in one of two ways:
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							- As the second argument, like this:
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							```javascript
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							aws4.sign(requestOptions, {
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							  secretAccessKey: "<your-secret-access-key>",
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							  accessKeyId: "<your-access-key-id>",
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							  sessionToken: "<your-session-token>"
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							export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="<your-access-key-id>"
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							export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="<your-secret-access-key>"
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							export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN="<your-session-token>"
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							with [IAM STS temporary credentials](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_temp_use-resources.html).
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							Installation
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							With [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/) do:
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							npm install aws4
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							Can also be used [in the browser](./browser).
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							Thanks
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							Thanks to [@jed](https://github.com/jed) for his
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							[dynamo-client](https://github.com/jed/dynamo-client) lib where I first
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							committed and subsequently extracted this code.
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							Also thanks to the
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							[official Node.js AWS SDK](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js) for giving
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							me a start on implementing the v4 signature.
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