This API is used to determine whether the specified object exists and whether you have the permission to access it. You can use this API to get the object metadata if you can access it. To make this request, you need to have read permission for the object or the object needs to have public read permission enabled.
With versioning enabled, you can specify the versionId request parameter to get the metadata of a specific version of the object. If the version ID you specify corresponds to a delete marker, an HTTP 404 status code (Not Found) will be returned. If no version ID is specified, the metadata of the latest version will be returned.
HEAD /<ObjectKey> HTTP/1.1
Host: <BucketName-APPID>.cos.<Region>.myqcloud.com
Date: GMT Date
Authorization: Auth StringAuthorization: Auth String (see Request Signature for details).
| Name | Description | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| versionId | Specifies the version ID of the object if versioning is enabled; if this parameter is not specified, the latest version will be queried | string | No |
In addition to common request headers, this API also supports the following request headers. For more information on common request headers, see Common Request Headers.
| Name | Description | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| If-Modified-Since | If the object is modified after the specified time, HTTP status code 200 (OK) will be returned; otherwise, HTTP status code 304 (Not Modified) will be returned. |
string | No |
| If-Unmodified-Since | If the object is not modified after the specified time, HTTP status code 200 (OK) will be returned; otherwise, HTTP status code 412 (Precondition Failed) will be returned. |
string | No |
| If-Match | If the ETag of the object is the same as the specified value, HTTP status code 200 (OK) will be returned; otherwise, HTTP status code 412 (Precondition Failed) will be returned. |
string | No |
| If-None-Match | If the ETag of the object is different from the specified value, HTTP status code 200 (OK) will be returned; otherwise, HTTP status code 304 (Not Modified) will be returned. |
string | No |
Server-side Encryption Headers
If server-side encryption is used for the specified object and the encryption method is SSE-C, you will need to specify the headers related to server-side encryption to decrypt the object. For more information, see Server-side Encryption Headers.
This API does not have a request body.
In addition to common response headers, this API also returns the following response headers. For more information on common response headers, see Common Response Headers.
| Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Cache-Control | Cache directives as defined in RFC 2616, which will be returned only if it is contained in the object metadata | string |
| Content-Disposition | File name as defined in RFC 2616, which will be returned only if it is contained in the object metadata | String |
| Content-Encoding | Encoding format as defined in RFC 2616, which will be returned only if it is contained in the object metadata | string |
| Expires | Cache expiration time as defined in RFC 2616, which will be returned only if it is contained in the object metadata | string |
| x-cos-meta-* | Contains user-defined metadata and header suffixes | string |
| x-cos-storage-class | Object storage class, such as STANDARD_IA, ARCHIVE and DEEP_ARCHIVE. For enumerated values, see Storage Class. This header will be returned only if the storage class of the object is not STANDARD. |
Enum |
| x-cos-storage-tier | Specifies the access tier for the object if it is stored in the INTELLIGENT TIERING storage class. Valid values: FREQUENT, INFREQUENT. | enum |
If the storage class of the object is ARCHIVE and POST Object restore has been used to restore it, the following response headers will be returned:
| Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| x-cos-restore | Indicates the status of the restoration process:ongoing-request="true"ongoing-request="false", expiry-date="Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:00:00 GMT" |
string |
| x-cos-restore-status | This parameter will be returned if the restoration is ongoing, indicating what restoration mode was used and when the restoration was requested, e.g. tier="bulk"; request-date="Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:34:50 GMT". For more information on restoration modes, see POST Object restore |
string |
Versioning-Related Headers
If the target object is from a bucket where versioning is enabled, the following response headers will be returned:
| Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| x-cos-version-id | Object version ID | string |
Server-side Encryption Headers
If server-side encryption is used for the specified object, this API will return the server-side encryption headers. For more information, see Server-side Encryption Headers.
The response body of this API is empty.
This API uses standardized error responses and error codes. For more information, see Error Codes .
HEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:17:36 GMT
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1586542656;1586549856&q-key-time=1586542656;1586549856&q-header-list=date;host&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=cde88925e00d1c90ba74985ca43b610bdf6b****
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 16
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:17:36 GMT
ETag: "ee8de918d05640145b18f70f4c3aa602"
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:17:25 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-hash-crc64ecma: 16749565679157681890
x-cos-request-id: NWU5MGI4NDBfNjFjODJhMDlfMzY2NjVfMjNi****HEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:51:49 GMT
If-None-Match: "ee8de918d05640145b18f70f4c3aa602"
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1596005509;1596012709&q-key-time=1596005509;1596012709&q-header-list=date;host;if-none-match&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=9d087f05c259ca271efe91fc780cdced75c6****
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:51:49 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-request-id: NWYyMTFjODVfZDNjODJhMDlfMWU1MWVfOTUy****
x-cos-trace-id: OGVmYzZiMmQzYjA2OWNhODk0NTRkMTBiOWVmMDAxODczNTBmNjMwZmQ0MTZkMjg0NjlkNTYyNmY4ZTRkZTk0NzJmZTI0ZmJhYTZmZjYyNmU5ZGNlZDI5YjkyODkwYjNhZjhlNGQ0MDY1ZGIxNDEwMWYwOTg1NDc4Mzg4MTE3****HEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:51:50 GMT
If-Match: "aa488bb80185a6be87f4a7b936a80752"
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1596005510;1596012710&q-key-time=1596005510;1596012710&q-header-list=date;host;if-match&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=38afe94fc61ca0b3aa763e00b23fd90ac23e****
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 412 Precondition Failed
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:51:50 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-request-id: NWYyMTFjODZfMzBjMDJhMDlfMmU3ZF9kYTE4****
x-cos-trace-id: OGVmYzZiMmQzYjA2OWNhODk0NTRkMTBiOWVmMDAxODczNTBmNjMwZmQ0MTZkMjg0NjlkNTYyNmY4ZTRkZTk0NzJmZTI0ZmJhYTZmZjYyNmU5ZGNlZDI5YjkyODkwYjNhZDRkOWFlZjczOWExNjZmY2RiNjhjNGIwZWQ3YjYw****HEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:19 GMT
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1586542699;1586549899&q-key-time=1586542699;1586549899&q-header-list=date;host&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=6a6d4dd5b5a9e6379f300715985bfb60b947****
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 16
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:19 GMT
ETag: "ee8de918d05640145b18f70f4c3aa602"
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:08 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-hash-crc64ecma: 16749565679157681890
x-cos-request-id: NWU5MGI4NmJfNmRjMDJhMDlfZGQwNl8xZmE4****
x-cos-server-side-encryption: AES256HEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:30 GMT
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1586542710;1586549910&q-key-time=1586542710;1586549910&q-header-list=date;host&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=7c8a1c93b9701e653c2ab00419f976397d00****
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 16
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:30 GMT
ETag: "00ca268468481b847fc2d8a9bd84578d"
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:19 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-hash-crc64ecma: 16749565679157681890
x-cos-request-id: NWU5MGI4NzZfN2FjODJhMDlfMjU3N18xYTEz****
x-cos-server-side-encryption: cos/kms
x-cos-server-side-encryption-cos-kms-key-id: 48ba38aa-26c5-11ea-855c-52540085****HEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:41 GMT
x-cos-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm: AES256
x-cos-server-side-encryption-customer-key: MDEyMzQ1Njc4OUFCQ0RFRjAxMjM0NTY3ODlBQkNE****
x-cos-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5: U5L61r7jcwdNvT7frmUG****
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1586542721;1586549921&q-key-time=1586542721;1586549921&q-header-list=date;host;x-cos-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm;x-cos-server-side-encryption-customer-key;x-cos-server-side-encryption-customer-key-md5&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=99ad258fc295f43feb0546bb2346c8269dc5****
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 16
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:41 GMT
ETag: "582d9105f71525f3c161984bc005efb5"
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:31 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-hash-crc64ecma: 16749565679157681890
x-cos-request-id: NWU5MGI4ODFfN2NiODJhMDlfMmFmYTVfMWRh****
x-cos-server-side-encryption-customer-algorithm: AES256
x-cos-server-side-encryption-customer-key-MD5: U5L61r7jcwdNvT7frmUG****
HEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:19:15 GMT
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1586542755;1586549955&q-key-time=1586542755;1586549955&q-header-list=date;host&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=7909dc19780873dfaa51c8b238254098ca1a****
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 26
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:19:15 GMT
ETag: "22e024392de860289f0baa7d6cf8a549"
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:19:04 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-hash-crc64ecma: 11596229263574363878
x-cos-request-id: NWU5MGI4YTNfZDZjODJhMDlfYmU0MV8xM2Y5****
x-cos-version-id: MTg0NDUxNTc1MzA5NjQ2ODI5MTg
HEAD /exampleobject?versionId=MTg0NDUxNTc1MzA5NzU4ODg1Mjg HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:19:04 GMT
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1586542744;1586549944&q-key-time=1586542744;1586549944&q-header-list=date;host&q-url-param-list=versionid&q-signature=1307acd3e8649087c738ecca452a54fa5a79****
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 16
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:19:04 GMT
ETag: "ee8de918d05640145b18f70f4c3aa602"
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:53 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-hash-crc64ecma: 16749565679157681890
x-cos-request-id: NWU5MGI4OThfN2RiNDBiMDlfMTk1MTBfMWZj****
x-cos-version-id: MTg0NDUxNTc1MzA5NzU4ODg1MjgHEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:19:35 GMT
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1577434775;1577441975&q-key-time=1577434775;1577441975&q-header-list=date;host&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=72408a09a5fc00d77d389559a0cfa5c98e31****
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 13
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:19:35 GMT
ETag: "b62e10bcab55a88240bd9c436cffdcf9"
Last-Modified: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:19:23 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-request-id: NWUwNWJlOTdfN2VjODJhMDlfOGI1N18yYjYz****
x-cos-restore: ongoing-request="true"
x-cos-restore-status: tier="expedited"; request-date="Fri, 27 Dec 2019 08:19:29 GMT"
x-cos-storage-class: ARCHIVEHEAD /exampleobject HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-1250000000.cos.ap-beijing.myqcloud.com
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 18:09:51 GMT
Authorization: q-sign-algorithm=sha1&q-ak=AKID8A0fBVtYFrNm02oY1g1JQQF0c3JO****&q-sign-time=1577988591;1577995791&q-key-time=1577988591;1577995791&q-header-list=date;host&q-url-param-list=&q-signature=ff23b3a44945f019916450add646e963c29b****
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length: 16
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:17:36 GMT
ETag: "ee8de918d05640145b18f70f4c3aa602"
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:17:25 GMT
Server: tencent-cos
x-cos-hash-crc64ecma: 16749565679157681890
x-cos-request-id: NWU5MWRiZjFfMmViMDJhMDlfNjIwOF8zNTU0****
x-cos-restore: ongoing-request="false", expiry-date="Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:00:00 GMT"
x-cos-storage-class: ARCHIVE
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