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Updated README.md with instructions to URL-encode AWS <secret_access_key> (#80)
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- `<region>` - the name of the AWS region (e.g. `us-east-1`) where this bucket was created (optional, if omitted, it will be auto-detected),
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- `<path>` - a virtual path (key prefix) inside the bucket under which all the binary log files will be stored.
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Note: your `<secret_access_key>` along with alphanumeric characters (`[a-zA-Z0-9]`) may also include `+` and `/` and because it needs to be inserted into the `userinfo` part of the URI, it is necessary to perform URL-encoding of selected special characters: `/` needs to be transformed into `%2F`, `+` can be left as is.
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In case of `S3`-compatible service with custom endpoint, the URIs must have the following format.
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`http[s]://[<access_key_id>:<secret_access_key>@]<host>[:<port>]/<bucket_name>/<path>`, where:
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- `<host>` - either a host name or an IP address of an `S3`-compatible server,

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