Add support to s3 sync for symlinks as website redirects

[braddr]

With the addition of website redirects several years ago, is there any reason not to support syncing symlinked files as a redirect? Symlink directories could also be supported via managing the bucket redirection rules.

Relatedly, the "--website-redirect (string)" option is listed as part of the help output for the sync command, but a single string makes no sense for an operation that can work on an arbitrary number of files. If what I'm looking for is supported via this option somehow, some usage examples are needed.

[alexlawrence]

Sorry for commenting an old issue but has there been any progress on this topic?
This would be really great to have.

[ASayre]

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[jamesls]

Based on community feedback, we have decided to return feature requests to GitHub issues.

[tim-finnigan]

Checking in as this issue has been inactive for several years. Does the --follow-symlinks parameter in the s3 sync documentation address some of the concerns here? I'm not too familiar with the use cases involving --website-redirect.

[broberts-dwd]

I haven't looked at this report in a lot of years, but I don't believe so. --follow-symlinks, I believe, results in the s3 object in question containing the contents of the target of the file system symlink. My feature request is for it to create a redirect to point to the target of the link rather than duplicate the contents of the file (effectively removing the knowledge and space savings of being the same target object)