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+I am trying to configure an S3 remote that uses minio. My minio installation seems to be working fine since aws cli seems to work well with it. However, when I try to enable git-annex, it seems to fail.
+
+~~~
+$ ga initremote minio1 --debug type=S3 encryption=none host=localhost port=9000 type=S3 datacenter='us-east-1' bucket=mybucket
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.885623] read: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","show-ref","git-annex"]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.903006] process done ExitSuccess
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.903132] read: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","show-ref","--hash","refs/heads/git-annex"]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.910207] process done ExitSuccess
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.913251] read: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","log","refs/heads/git-annex..6c06bbc19665ed251ce580b99dcfc8a85f3381dc","--pretty=%H","-n1"]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.925076] process done ExitSuccess
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.92517] read: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","log","refs/heads/git-annex..116aa90151930ec19220a11be01392617206b84f","--pretty=%H","-n1"]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.936854] process done ExitSuccess
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.942329] chat: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","cat-file","--batch"]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:31.943444] chat: git ["--git-dir=.git","--work-tree=.","--literal-pathspecs","cat-file","--batch-check=%(objectname) %(objecttype) %(objectsize)"]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.010375] read: git ["config","--null","--list"]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.017277] process done ExitSuccess
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.017437] read: git ["config","--null","--list"]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.024346] process done ExitSuccess
+initremote minio1 (checking bucket...) [2020-06-18 15:34:32.131454] String to sign: "GET\n\n\nThu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT\n/mybucket/annex-uuid"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.131524] Host: "mybucket.localhost"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.131555] Path: "/annex-uuid"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.131578] Query string: ""
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.131602] Header: [("Date","Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT"),("Authorization","AWS user:key")]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.141977] Response status: Status {statusCode = 403, statusMessage = "Forbidden"}
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142062] Response header 'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142117] Response header 'Content-Length': '379'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142158] Response header 'Content-Security-Policy': 'block-all-mixed-content'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142195] Response header 'Content-Type': 'application/xml'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142228] Response header 'Server': 'MinIO/RELEASE.2020-06-18T02-23-35Z'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142262] Response header 'Vary': 'Origin'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142316] Response header 'X-Amz-Request-Id': '1619C4344BCDB673'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.14235] Response header 'X-Xss-Protection': '1; mode=block'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142373] Response header 'Date': 'Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142419] Response metadata: S3: request ID=<none>, x-amz-id-2=<none>
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142549] String to sign: "GET\n\n\nThu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT\n/mybucket/"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142601] Host: "mybucket.localhost"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142643] Path: "/"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142665] Query string: ""
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.142717] Header: [("Date","Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT"),("Authorization","AWS user:key2")]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.144475] Response status: Status {statusCode = 403, statusMessage = "Forbidden"}
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.144559] Response header 'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.144782] Response header 'Content-Length': '334'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.144854] Response header 'Content-Security-Policy': 'block-all-mixed-content'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.144887] Response header 'Content-Type': 'application/xml'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.144917] Response header 'Server': 'MinIO/RELEASE.2020-06-18T02-23-35Z'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.144965] Response header 'Vary': 'Origin'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145004] Response header 'X-Amz-Request-Id': '1619C4344BF32D94'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145039] Response header 'X-Xss-Protection': '1; mode=block'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145073] Response header 'Date': 'Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT'
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145263] Response metadata: S3: request ID=1619C4344BF32D94, x-amz-id-2=<none>
+(creating bucket in us-east-1...) [2020-06-18 15:34:32.145379] String to sign: "PUT\n\n\nThu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT\n/mybucket/"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145416] Host: "mybucket.localhost"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145448] Path: "/"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145491] Query string: ""
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145535] Header: [("Date","Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT"),("Authorization","AWS minioadmin:a7TFnEnBgtRW791jNvAyhC5fywI=")]
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.145614] Body: "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><CreateBucketConfiguration xmlns=\"http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/\"><LocationConstraint>us-east-1</LocationConstraint></CreateBucketConfiguration>"
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.153701] Response metadata: S3: request ID=<none>, x-amz-id-2=<none>
+
+git-annex: HttpExceptionRequest Request {
+  host                 = "mybucket.localhost"
+  port                 = 9000
+  secure               = False
+  requestHeaders       = [("Date","Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:32 GMT"),("Authorization","<REDACTED>")]
+  path                 = "/"
+  queryString          = ""
+  method               = "PUT"
+  proxy                = Nothing
+  rawBody              = False
+  redirectCount        = 10
+  responseTimeout      = ResponseTimeoutDefault
+  requestVersion       = HTTP/1.1
+}
+ NoResponseDataReceived
+failed
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.15492] process done ExitSuccess
+[2020-06-18 15:34:32.155377] process done ExitSuccess
+git-annex: initremote: 1 failed
+~~~
+
+Any ideas on what this could be because of?