# Obtaining Bucket Policy Information

#### Functions

This operation uses the sub-resources of policy to return the policy information 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 obtaining bucket policies.

This operation cannot be performed in the following scenarios, and the 404 error code "NoSuchBucketPolicy" is returned:

- The specified bucket policy does not exist.
- The standard bucket policy is set to Private and no custom bucket policy is configured.

#### Request Syntax

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    GET /?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
    Content-Type: application/xml
    Date: date
    Policy Content

#### Response Headers

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

#### Response Elements

The response body is a JSON string containing bucket policy information.

#### Error Responses

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

#### Sample Request

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    GET /?policy HTTP/1.1
    Host: examplebucket.obs.region.example.com
    Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:35:46 GMT
    Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:jZiAT8Vx4azWEvPRMWi0X5BpJMA=

#### Sample Response

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    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    x-obs-request-id: A603000001604A7DFE4A4AF31E301891
    x-obs-id-2: BKOvGmTlt6sda5X4G89PuMO4fabObGYmnpRGkaMba1LqPt0fCACEuCMllAObRK1n
    Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:35:46 GMT
    Content-Length: 509
    Server: OBS

    {
        "Statement":[
            {
                "Sid":"Stmt1375240018061",
                "Effect":"Allow",
                "Principal":{
                    "ID":[
                        "domain/domainiddomainiddomainiddo006666:user/useriduseriduseriduseridus004001",
                        "domain/domainiddomainiddomainiddo006667:user/*"
                    ]
                },
                "Action":[
                    "*"
                ],
                "Resource":[
                    "examplebucket"
                ]
            }
        ]
    }

Parent topic: Advanced Bucket Settings