S3 PUT http with url-connection-client contentEncoding is always "aws-chunked"

[youngm]

Describe the bug

When putting an S3Object connecting to S3 via http and url-connection-client, the contentEncoding for that object is always "aws-chunked".

Expected Behavior

The contentEncoding should be whatever is set in the PutObjectRequest.

Current Behavior

contentEncoding is always aws-chunked when connecting to s3 via http and url-connection-client.

Reproduction Steps

This test creates an object using http s3 and sets a contentEncoding. Note that the contentEncoding is changed to "aws-chunked" by the sdk.

S3Test.java

public class S3Test {

  @Test
  public void test() throws Exception {
    try (var s3Client =
        S3Client.builder()
            .endpointOverride(URI.create("http://s3.amazonaws.com"))
            .build()) {
    var putRequest =
        PutObjectRequest.builder()
            .bucket("bucket")
            .key("file")
            .contentEncoding("bogus")
            .build();

    s3Client.putObject(putRequest, RequestBody.empty());
    try (var response =
        s3Client.getObject(GetObjectRequest.builder().bucket("bucket").key("file").build())) {
    assertThat(response.response().contentEncoding()).isEqualTo("bogus");
    }
    }
  }
}

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<parent>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
		<version>3.1.5</version>
	</parent>
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>s3test</groupId>
	<artifactId>s3test</artifactId>
	<version>1.0</version>
	<properties>
		<java.version>17</java.version>
	</properties>
	<dependencyManagement>
		<dependencies>
			<dependency>
				<groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
				<artifactId>bom</artifactId>
				<version>2.21.36</version>
				<type>pom</type>
				<scope>import</scope>
			</dependency>
		</dependencies>
	</dependencyManagement>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
			<artifactId>s3</artifactId>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
					<artifactId>netty-nio-client</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
					<artifactId>apache-client</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
			<artifactId>url-connection-client</artifactId>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
			<artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
			<artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
</project>

Possible Solution

PutObjectRequest should behave the same no matter the client used or http vs https. I don't know what exactly is causing the wrong contentEncoding to be sent in this situation.

Additional Information/Context

This is a re-opening of #4725.

AWS Java SDK version used

2.21.16+

JDK version used

17

Operating System and version

Windows 11

[youngm]

I updated the test case to use AWS s3 via http and not test containers/localstack.

[debora-ito]

Hi @youngm, I still can't reproduce the issue, even with UrlConnectionHttpClient.

Some steps to try to narrow down the cause:

1. Are you using a proxy?
   -- Proxies might modify the request headers after they were sent by the SDK and before they hit the aws endpoint
2. Check the verbose wirelogs -
   -- instructions to enable can be found in the Developer Guide
   -- UrlConnection wirelogs spacing is a little odd, but you can still see the content-encoding value:

FINE: sun.net.www.MessageHeader@35c9a23115 pairs: 
    {PUT /duck.txt HTTP/1.1: null}
    {amz-sdk-invocation-id: 58c09078-4a64-dcef-e04e-54176eb69c82}
    {amz-sdk-request: attempt=1; max=4}
    {Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=xxx/20231208/us-east-1/s3/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=amz-sdk-invocation-id;amz-sdk-request;content-encoding;content-length;content-type;host;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date;x-amz-security-token, Signature=xxx}
    {Content-Encoding: bogus}
    {Content-Type: application/octet-stream}
    {Expect: 100-continue}
    {User-Agent: aws-sdk-java/2.21.39 OpenJDK_64-Bit_Server_VM/11.0.21+9-LTS Java/11.0.21 vendor/Amazon.com_Inc. io/sync http/UrlConnection cfg/retry-mode/legacy ft/s3-transfer}
    {x-amz-content-sha256: UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD}
    {X-Amz-Date: 20231208T233805Z}
    {Accept: */*}
    {Host: my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com}
    {Connection: keep-alive}
    {Content-Length: 14}

See {Content-Encoding: bogus} as one of the PutRequest headers. Checking the GetObject body in the logs is a little tricky, but you can see with a visual check if Content-Encoding: bogus is returned.

3. Check the content-encoding in s3 after the upload -
   -- this is to identify if the problem is in the PutObject or GetObject
   -- you can check in the aws console or use the cli - here's the aws cli command:

$ aws s3api head-object --bucket my-bucket --key duck.txt
{
    "AcceptRanges": "bytes",
    "LastModified": "2023-12-09T00:14:42+00:00",
    "ContentLength": 14,
    "ContentEncoding": "bogus",
    "ContentType": "application/octet-stream",
    "ServerSideEncryption": "AES256",
    "Metadata": {}
}

If you share the verbose wirelogs I can take a look.

[youngm]

@debora-ito did you connect to s3 using http? Not https?

[debora-ito]

@youngm I missed that part 🤦🏻‍♀️ thank you for pointing out.

I see the "aws-chunked" in the content-encoding header now, when using HTTP endpoint and UrlConnectionHttpClient. We'll investigate.

Can you use ApacheHttpClient in the meantime?

[youngm]

That's great @debora-ito 😅. I have instead switched to https when using localstack. But http is more conventional when using localstack so I hope you are able to get to the bottom of it. Thanks!