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Over the past year Amazon’s been sending me a series of escalating emails warning me that it’s shutting off my SES access unless I something something V4 authentication signature. Sometime in April they followed through and stopped letting me use the API. It was time to dissect an old legacy app and figure out what, if anything, I was going to do about this.
This application was built in the days before the AWS PHP SDK — I found a file named ses.php with a few classes in it, and its doc blocks pointed me to this source force page last updated in 2011 and I — already had the latest version. No help from that vendor who I’ve never met, talked to, and haven’t paid a dime. Rude.
I sift through the source and found the spot where headers are set and briefly though about about trying to implement the v4 signatures myself. However, after a series of sometimes circular amazon docs I saw 25 – 50 lines of fiddly code in my future and stepped back. I couldn’t be the only one with this problem, right?
Some googling on the PHP class names turned up this GitHub repository which, according to the original library author (whose website I found), is a semi-blessed fork.
Update: Daniel Zahariev has forked the project and implemented the missing SendRawEmail functionality as well as Sig V4 support. You can download it at his GitHub project page.
It sounds like you need to be named Daniel to work on this project.
The forked version appeared to have implemented the v4 signing I needed and provided the project as a composer package. This composer package was a slight problem as I really didn’t want to rework my old project’s repo and deployment to use composer and turn this into a days long thing so I checked that the PHP cops were on break, and then just concatenated the three classes into a new ses.php.
One quick test later and it seemed like email was flowing again. I briefly considered modernizing this application to use composer and the official AWS SDK like I would if I was doing this for someone else, but instead kick that can down the road. There’s only so much time to spend with the ghost(s) of your formerly successful software business.
I look forward to stumbling on this blog article when, in a few years time, Amazon deprecates something else.