When pay-by-requester is enabled for a bucket, requesters pay the request and traffic fees that are incurred when the requesters access objects in the bucket. The bucket owner must still pay the storage fees of the objects in the bucket. If you want to share your data without having to pay for additional fees, you can use the request-payment command to enable pay-by-requester for your bucket.

Notice Sample command lines in this topic are based on the 64-bit Linux system. For other systems, replace ./ossutil64 in the commands with the corresponding binary name. For more information, see ossutil.

For more information about pay-by-requester, see Enable pay-by-requester.

Enable pay-by-requester

  • Command syntax
    ./ossutil64 request-payment --method put oss://bucketname payment

    The following table describes the parameters that you can configure when you run this command.

    Parameter Description
    bucketname The name of the bucket for which you want to enable pay-by-requester.
    payment The payment method for the fees that are incurred when third-party users access data in the bucket.

    Valid values:

    • Requester: Requesters are charged for the fee to access objects in the bucket.

      Anonymous users cannot access a bucket that has pay-by-requester enabled. Requesters must provide authentication information so that OSS can identify and charge requesters for request and traffic fees. If a requester assumes a RAM role of an Alibaba Cloud account to request data, OSS charges the Alibaba Cloud account for the requests sent by the requester and the generated traffic.

    • BucketOwner: The bucket owner is charged for the fees when requesters access objects in the bucket.
  • Examples
    You can run the following command to enable pay-by-requester for a bucket named examplebucket: 
    ./ossutil64 request-payment --method put oss://examplebucket Requester
    You can run the following command to disable pay-by-requester for a bucket named examplebucket: 
    ./ossutil64 request-payment --method put oss://examplebucket BucketOwner

    If a similar output is displayed, pay-by-requester is enabled or disabled for the bucket. 

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Query the pay-by-requester status of a bucket

  • Command syntax
    ./ossutil64 request-payment --method get oss://bucketname

    bucketname indicates the bucket for which you want to query the pay-by-requester status.

  • Examples

    You can run the following command to query the pay-by-requester status of a bucket named examplebucket: 

    ./ossutil64 request-payment --method get oss://examplebucket

    The following result shows that pay-by-requester is enabled for examplebucket: 

    Requester
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Common options

To use ossutil to manage buckets that are located in different regions, you can use the -e option to use the endpoint of the specified bucket. To use ossutil to manage buckets that are owned by different Alibaba Cloud accounts, you can use the -i option to use the AccessKey ID of the specified account, and use the -k option to use the AccessKey secret of the specified account.

For example, you can run the following command to enable pay-by-requester for a bucket named testbucket that is located in the China (Shanghai) region and owned by another Alibaba Cloud account. 

./ossutil64 request-payment --method put oss://testbucket -e oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com -i LTAI4Fw2NbDUCV8zYUzA**** -k 67DLVBkH7EamOjy2W5RVAHUY9H****

For more information the mb command, see Common options.