Getting error: The MAC signature found in the HTTP request is not the same as any computed signature

[rawbeans]

When I try to run collectstatic, I get an authentication error: The MAC signature found in the HTTP request is not the same as any computed signature.

I have outlined the problem here on stackoverflow.

Any idea about what is going wrong?

[kevin-brown]

I recently ran into this issue when using the --clear command alongside collectstatic, but I wasn't able to determine why that happened.

This error is common when the system time is off (such that the signature doesn't match) or if the storage keys are incorrect. I would recommend confirming both of those, it's pretty easy to accidentally put an extra character in the storage keys.

[rawbeans]

Both of these appear to be ok. As you can see from this gist of the request/response, the system times are the same.

I have double checked the storage key, and have tried both the primary and secondary keys.

Any ideas of further debugging I can do to look into this?

Do my request/response headers look normal?

[rawbeans]

I was using the setting DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE instead of STATICFILES_STORAGE. Changing this fixed the issue.