# Deleting a Bucket Policy

#### Functions

This operation uses the policy sub-resources to delete the policy of a specified bucket.

To perform this operation, the user must be the bucket owner or the bucket owner's IAM user that has permissions required for deleting bucket policies.

The 204 error code "No Content" is returned regardless of whether a requested bucket policy exists or not.

#### Request Syntax

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    DELETE /?policy HTTP/1.1
    Host: bucketname.obs.region.example.com
    Date: date
    Authorization: authorization

#### Request Parameters

This request contains no parameter.

#### Request Headers

This request uses common headers. For details, see Table 3.

#### Request Elements

This request involves no elements.

#### Response Syntax

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    HTTP/1.1 status_code
    Date: date
    Content-Type: text/xml
    Content-Length: length

#### Response Headers

The response to the request uses common headers. For details, see Table 1.

#### Response Elements

This response involves no elements.

#### Error Responses

No special error responses are returned. For details, see Table 2.

#### Sample Request

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    DELETE /?policy HTTP/1.1
    Host: examplebucket.obs.region.example.com
    Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:36:06 GMT
    Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:jZiAT8Vx4azWEvPRMWi0X5BpJMA=

#### Sample Response

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    HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
    x-obs-request-id: 9006000001643AAAF70BF6152D71BE8A
    x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABSAAgAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSB4oWmNX3gVGGLr1cRPWjOhffEbq1XV
    Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:36:06 GMT
    Server: OBS

Parent topic: Advanced Bucket Settings