(C#) S3 Get Object Metadata, such as ETag

Demonstrates how to get an S3 object's metadata using a HEAD request.

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// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();

// Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
// In this case we connect to S3 in the "us-west-2" region.
bool bTls = true;
int port = 443;
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
bool success = rest.Connect("s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

// Provide AWS credentials.
Chilkat.AuthAws authAws = new Chilkat.AuthAws();
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY";
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY";
authAws.ServiceName = "s3";

// This particular bucket is in the Oregon region, as opposed to the US Standard,
// therefore the Region must be set appropriately.
// Also note that we connected to "s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com".
authAws.Region = "us-west-2";

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws);

// Note: The above REST connection and setup of the AWS credentials
// can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
// The "auto reconnect" property passed to rest.Connect indicates that if
// the connection is lost, a REST method call will automatically reconnect
// if needed.
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Set the bucket name via the HOST header.
// In this case, the bucket name is "chilkat.ocean".
// Note that the Host header should use "bucketName.s3.amazonaws.com", not "bucketName.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
rest.Host = "chilkat.ocean.s3.amazonaws.com";

// Our object is "starfish.jpg".
// Get the metadata.
// Since we are sending a HEAD request, we shouldn't use any of the Full* methods.
// Instead, send the request, then just read the response header.
success = rest.SendReqNoBody("HEAD","/starfish.jpg");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Now get the response header.
int statusCode = rest.ReadResponseHeader();
if (statusCode < 0) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// When successful, the S3 Storage service will respond with a 200 response code,
// with an XML body.  
if (statusCode != 200) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    Debug.WriteLine("response status code = " + Convert.ToString(statusCode));
    Debug.WriteLine("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText);
    Debug.WriteLine("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader);
    return;
}

// The response header contains information about the S3 object.
// For example:

// 	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
// 	x-amz-id-2: GrV/hrB2EUkBlWc0h3JDdmVIrYDXfPC7CGvo/qSVRmYRPwilAOry8+4r2YWl4xJfa1HRYXrP808=
// 	x-amz-request-id: 4BDC6D6AEA0BDEF3
// 	Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 22:03:13 GMT
// 	Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:10:23 GMT
// 	ETag: "2e9c59dbf2662367dc97dfdda85da048"
// 	Accept-Ranges: bytes
// 	Content-Type: image/jpg
// 	Content-Length: 6229
// 	Server: AmazonS3

// Get the ETag response header value:
string etag = rest.ResponseHdrByName("ETag");
Debug.WriteLine("ETag: " + etag);