DELETE Bucket

Deletes an empty bucket.

The DELETE Bucket method is a simple DELETE request with bucket scope. You must be a member of the project owners group to delete buckets. Also, all DELETE Bucket requests must be authenticated.

As a best practice, after you delete all of the objects from a bucket you should set the bucket ACLs so that no users can create objects in the bucket.

If there are objects in the bucket when you attempt to delete it you will get a 409 Conflict status code and the body of the error response will contain BucketNotEmpty in the Code element.

If the bucket does not exist you will get a 404 Not Found status code and the body of the error response will contain NoSuchBucket in the Code element.

Query string parameters

This request does not include query string parameters.

Request headers

Header	Description	Required
Authorization	The authentication string for the request.	Yes
Content-Length	The length of the request body without headers (in bytes). * Not required for requests that use chunked transfer encoding.	Yes*
Date	The date and time of the request.	Yes
Host	The URI for Cloud Storage. For more information, see Request Endpoints.	Yes

Request body elements

This request does not include an XML document in the request body.

Request syntax

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: <bucket>.storage.googleapis.com
Date: <date>
Authorization: <authentication string>
Content-Length: <request body length>

Response headers

The request can return a variety of response headers depending on the request headers you use.

Response body elements

The response does not include an XML document in the response body.

Example

The following example deletes a bucket named travel-maps.

Request

DELETE / HTTP/1.1
Host: travel-maps.storage.googleapis.com
Date: Mon, 15 Feb  2010 11:00:00 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Authorization: Bearer ya29.AHES6ZRVmB7fkLtd1XTmq6mo0S1wqZZi3-Lh_s-6Uw7p8vtgSwg

Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Date: Mon, 15 Feb  2010 11:00:01 GMT
Expires: Mon, 15 Feb  2010 11:00:01 GMT