SQS Queue URL format not same as SQS console

[alok87]

When I do something like:

client = boto3.client("sqs", "us-west-1")
response = client.get_queue_url(QueueName="queue_name")
print response["QueueUrl"]
the URL i get is of the form: https://us-west-1.queue.amazonaws.com/<account_id>/<queue_name>.

But according to the docs here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/ImportantIdentifiers.html, the queue url should be of the form:
http://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/queue2.

This makes things very confusing... was the queue url format recently changed?

Related #224

[swetashre]

@alok87 - Thank you for your post. The reason we use the alternate endpoint style is to support Python 2.7 as it does not support SNI, which is required for the new endpoints. We would need to drop support for python 2.6-2.7.8. Even then it would still be a breaking change because people have whitelists for particular urls, so changing what we use would break them.

As a workaround you can use endpoint_url to override the url when constructing boto3 client. Something like this:

client = boto3.client('sqs',endpoint_url='https://sqs.us-west-2.amazonaws.com')

This issue is related to issue #1900

[alok87]

Thanks for the information.