Non alpha numeric characters in bucket names

[lesposito]

Does S3 allow to keep non alpha numeric characters in bucket names? I used Bucket Explorer to create a bucket with a "?" as the last character of the bucket name. Bucket Exp. created the bucket, kept the name same but striped off the "?" from end. Is it S3 or a bug in Bucket Explorer?

[lmenaria]

Lesposito,

"?" is not supported in bucket name, because buckets correspond to domain names (globally unique), so it names can only contain alphanumeric characters, period (.), dash (-) and underscore(_).

Bucket name should be 3 to 255 characters long.

Thanks
Laxmilal

[saurabh]

In October release, this has been fixed. Now if a user tries to add special characters, bucket explorer will remove those before attempting to create a new bucket.