Possible to send request directly to Amazon SQS from http (javascript client)?

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VinnyD picture VinnyD · Dec 6, 2011 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

Is it possible to send a messaging request to Amazon's SQS directly from javascript? I'm trying to create a logging system and would love to bypass sending the request to a middleman server. Also, does anybody know of any alternatives to this solution that I may leverage?

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randomuser picture randomuser · Dec 8, 2011

SQS(and as a matter of fact all aws services) expose REST based apis. You can directly make a http request to the SQS REST api through javascript code. The api documentation id given here.

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