Amazon S3 - HTTPS/SSL - Is it possible?

Question

I saw a few other questions regarding this without any real answers or information (or so it appeared).

I have an image here:
http://furniture.retailcatalog.us/products/2061/6262u9665.jpg

Which is redirecting to:
http://furniture.retailcatalog.us.s3.amazonaws.com/products/2061/6262u9665.jpg

I need it to be (https):
https://furniture.retailcatalog.us/products/2061/6262u9665.jpg

So I installed a wildcard ssl on retailatalog.us (we have other subdomains), but it wasn't working. I went to check
https://furniture.retailcatalog.us.s3.amazonaws.com/products/2061/6262u9665.jpg

And it wasn't working, which means on the Amazon S3 website itself the https wasn't working.

How do I make this work?

Answer 1

This is a response I got from their Premium Services

Hello,

This is actually a issue with the way SSL validates names containing a period, '.', > character. We've documented this behavior here:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/BucketRestrictions.html

The only straight-forward fix for this is to use a bucket name that does not contain that character. You might instead use a bucket named 'furniture-retailcatalog-us'. This would allow you use HTTPS with

https://furniture-retailcatalog-us.s3.amazonaws.com/

You could, of course, put a CNAME DNS record to make that more friendly. For example,

images-furniture.retailcatalog.us IN CNAME furniture-retailcatalog-us.s3.amazonaws.com.

Hope that helps. Let us know if you have any other questions.

Amazon Web Services