AWSDNSAuth
Creates AWS Authentication Header for Route 53 API Calls.
This is a python script that creates proper AWS Route 53 HTTP headers before calling CURL.
Usage
usage: AWSDNSAuth.py [-h] -c CREDENTIALS [-a] [-V] [-v] curl_url ...
AWSDNSAuth -- AWS Route 53 Authorization Tool
Created by sst on 23 March 2013.
Copyright 2013 Sébastien Stormacq. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the BSD 3 Clauses License
http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
Distributed on an "AS IS" basis without warranties
or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.
USAGE
positional arguments:
curl_url URL parameter to be passed to curl command
curl_parameters parameters to be passed to curl command (-X -d ..)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CREDENTIALS, --credentials CREDENTIALS
path to a file containing AWS credentials [required]
-a, --amazonDate use the date provided by Amazon instead of local date
[default = False]
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-v, --verbose display more information during execution [default =
False]
AWS Credentials File Format:
[credentials]
AWS_ACCESS_KEY=<access key>
AWS_SECRET_KEY=<secret key>
Usage Example
sst:src sst$ ./AWSDNSAuth.py -a -c /Users/sst/.aws-secret https://route53.amazonaws.com/2012-12-12/hostedzone | xmllint --format -<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ListHostedZonesResponse xmlns="https://route53.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-12-12/">
<HostedZones>
<HostedZone>
<Id>/hostedzone/MY_ZONE_ID</Id>
<Name>aws.mydomain.com.</Name>
<CallerReference>22F684C6-3886-3FFF-8437-E22C5DCB56E7</CallerReference>
<Config>
<Comment>AWS Route53 Hosted subdomain</Comment>
</Config>
<ResourceRecordSetCount>4</ResourceRecordSetCount>
</HostedZone>
</HostedZones>
<IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
<MaxItems>100</MaxItems>
</ListHostedZonesResponse>More details at http://www.stormacq.com/python-script-for-aws-route-53-api-authentication/