# Error Failed to connect: The authorization header is malformed; the region is wrong; expecting 'us-east-1'
**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/error-failed-to-connect-the-authorization-header-is-malformed-the-region-is-wrong-expecting-us-east-1/7305
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 14, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/error-failed-to-connect-the-authorization-header-is-malformed-the-region-is-wrong-expecting-us-east-1/7305 "2019-06-14T21:46:55Z")
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### Author:  [@cyruspy](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/cyruspy)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/error-failed-to-connect-the-authorization-header-is-malformed-the-region-is-wrong-expecting-us-east-1/7305/1 "2019-06-14T21:46:55Z")
Hi!,
I’m trying to setup a minio S3 based destination for backups, the thing is it complains about malformed authorization, mentioning a region I didn’t setup. Trying to set a custom region and leaving “default”, but both configurations end up with that error.
On the backend, we have a test minio cluster on HTTP.
Client: 2.0.4.18\_canary\_2019-05-12
Server: Minio 2019-06-11T00:44:33Z
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@cyruspy](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/cyruspy)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/error-failed-to-connect-the-authorization-header-is-malformed-the-region-is-wrong-expecting-us-east-1/7305/2 "2019-06-14T22:43:20Z")
For the record, needed to set s3-ext-authenticationregion to match the same as “region” in the default attributes.
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### Author:  [@Rajesh\_Kumar](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/Rajesh_Kumar)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/error-failed-to-connect-the-authorization-header-is-malformed-the-region-is-wrong-expecting-us-east-1/7305/3 "2021-11-05T03:56:23Z")
What it means ? can you please elaborate ?