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It'd be nice if they added first class support for accept-encoding after all these years.

or for custom headers, so that I could, for example, serve all my fonts from S3.

I thought you could set custom headers already.

You can set custom headers as long as they are prefaced with x-amz-meta...Other than that, you're limited to just a handful of headers. See my reply to thamer for more info.

You can, but maybe not from the web interface. I use s3cmd to upload files, and it sets the content-type just fine.

You can from the web interface too. You just have to right click to get to properties, then there is a tab for setting headers.

Sure, you can set custom headers as long as they are prefaced with x-amz-meta...Other than that, you're limited to just a handful of headers. This is a big deal for fonts because the Access-Control-Allow-Origin must be set appropriately to be able to use custom fonts from a different origin (i.e. host&port) and S3 will pretty much always be on a different origin than the rest of your website.

You can read more on the AWS forum post about the issue: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=34281

Edit: For those interested the complete list of allowed headers is here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/index....

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