Deleting an ACL

Content Platform Tenant Management
Version
9.7.x
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Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-95HCPH002-19

You use the HTTP DELETE request to delete an ACL from an object. You cannot delete an ACL from an old version of an object.

Access permission

To delete an ACL, you need write ACL or delete permission.

Request header

DELETE /rest/directory/file?type=acl HTTP/1.1
Parameter Required Description
directory Yes Folder name.
file Yes Name of the file, including file extension.
type Yes Use the value acl.

Response headers

This operation does not return any request-specific response headers.

Status codes

The table below describes the HTTP status codes that have specific meaning for this request.

Code Meaning Description
200 OK

HCP successfully deleted the ACL.

HCP returns this status code even if the object does not have an ACL.
400 Bad Request

The request specified a conditional header, such as If-Match.

If more information about the error is available, the HTTP response headers include the HCP-specific X‑HCP-ErrorMessage header.
404 Not Found

One of:

  • HCP could not find the specified object
  • Any component of the URL except for the last component in the path is a symbolic link to a directory.
409 Conflict HCP could not delete the ACL because it is currently being written to the namespace.

Example: Deleting an ACL for an object

Here’s a sample HTTP DELETE request that deletes the ACL for an object named Q1_2012.ppt located in the quarterly_rpts directory.

Request with curl command line

curl -k -iX DELETE
   -H "Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"
    "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com/rest/quarterly_rpts/Q1_2012.ppt
    ?type=acl"

Request in Python using PycURL

import pycurl
curl = pycurl.Curl()
curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: HCP
  bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"])
curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com \
  /rest/quarterly_rpts/Q1_2012.ppt?type=acl")
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE")
curl.perform()
print curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE)
curl.close()

Request headers

DELETE /rest/quarterly_rpts/Q1_2012.ppt?type=acl HTTP/1.1
Host: finance.europe.hcp.example.com
Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d

Response headers

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-HCP-ServicedBySystem: hcp.example.com
X-HCP-Time: 1334858680
Content-Length: 0