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authorDaiderd Jordan <daiderd@gmail.com>2018-12-07T22·48+0100
committerDaiderd Jordan <daiderd@gmail.com>2018-12-07T23·15+0100
commit77cc632186d6a0bb63c1e16238f628857bc6e7bd (patch)
treed461bc85040bbf540e8023bc1f5c58d18c733fd6 /doc/manual/packages
parent898823b67d4d9ceeaebf166957141706eb03ad72 (diff)
s3: document scheme query parameter
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/packages')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/packages/s3-substituter.xml14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/packages/s3-substituter.xml b/doc/manual/packages/s3-substituter.xml
index ea654392c6b1..2ec9687a0c60 100644
--- a/doc/manual/packages/s3-substituter.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/packages/s3-substituter.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,18 @@ the S3 URL:</para>
     addressing.</para></note>
   </listitem>
   </varlistentry>
+
+  <varlistentry><term><literal>scheme</literal></term>
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      The scheme used for S3 requests, <literal>https</literal>
+      (default) or <literal>http</literal>.  This option allows you to
+      disable HTTPS for binary caches which don't support it.
+    </para>
+    <note><para>HTTPS should be used if the cache might contain
+    sensitive information.</para></note>
+  </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
 </variablelist>
 
 <para>In this example we will use the bucket named
@@ -165,7 +177,7 @@ the S3 URL:</para>
   </example>
 
   <example><title>Uploading to an S3-Compatible Binary Cache</title>
-    <para><command>nix copy --to 's3://example-nix-cache?profile=cache-upload&amp;endpoint=minio.example.com' nixpkgs.hello</command></para>
+    <para><command>nix copy --to 's3://example-nix-cache?profile=cache-upload&amp;scheme=https&amp;endpoint=minio.example.com' nixpkgs.hello</command></para>
   </example>
 </section>
 </section>