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S3 Find Bucket Region

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Demonstrates how to find out the region of an S3 bucket.

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Local $bSuccess = False

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

$oRest = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Rest")

; Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server using the correct region (in this example, "us-west-2")
Local $bTls = True
Local $iPort = 443
Local $bAutoReconnect = True
$bSuccess = $oRest.Connect("s3.amazonaws.com",$iPort,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)

; Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
$oAuthAws = ObjCreate("Chilkat.AuthAws")
$oAuthAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
$oAuthAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
$oAuthAws.ServiceName = "s3"
$bSuccess = $oRest.SetAuthAws($oAuthAws)

; The bucket name we want to know about is set in the HOST header.
; In this example, we want to find the region for the "chilkat.qa" bucket.
$oRest.Host = "chilkat.qa.s3.amazonaws.com"

; Send the GET request to query the bucket location.
Local $strResult = $oRest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/?location")
If ($oRest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

Local $iResponseStatusCode = $oRest.ResponseStatusCode
ConsoleWrite("Response status code = " & $iResponseStatusCode & @CRLF)
If ($iResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.ResponseHeader & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($strResult & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Failed." & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite($strResult & @CRLF)

; The result contains XML like this:
; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
; <LocationConstraint xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">us-west-2</LocationConstraint>

; Get the "us-west-2" from the XML
$oXml = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Xml")
$bSuccess = $oXml.LoadXml($strResult)
ConsoleWrite("region = " & $oXml.Content & @CRLF)