What does gsutil use under the hood?

0
votes

When I am transferring a local file to a Google Cloud Storage bucket with the Google CLoud utility gsutil, what protocol does it use? Encrypted SSH tunnel?

2
google-cloud-platformgsutil

2 Answers

1
votes

It should be using HTTPS to upload to the Google Cloud Storage API. This Python client library shows some details of that connection.

1
votes

Gsutil uses the apitools and boto libraries to send HTTPS requests (to GCS's JSON and XML APIs, respectively). You can see details about each request gsutil is making on your behalf if you run gsutil with the -D option, e.g.:

gsutil -D cp /some/file.txt gs://my-bucket/