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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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Objective-C
#import <CkoRest.h>
#import <CkoAuthAws.h>
#import <NSString.h>
#import <CkoXml.h>

BOOL success = NO;

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

CkoRest *rest = [[CkoRest alloc] init];

// Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server using the correct region (in this example, "us-west-2")
BOOL bTls = YES;
int port = 443;
BOOL bAutoReconnect = YES;
success = [rest Connect: @"s3.amazonaws.com" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: port] tls: bTls autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect];

// Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
CkoAuthAws *authAws = [[CkoAuthAws alloc] init];
authAws.AccessKey = @"AWS_ACCESS_KEY";
authAws.SecretKey = @"AWS_SECRET_KEY";
authAws.ServiceName = @"s3";
success = [rest SetAuthAws: authAws];

// 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.
rest.Host = @"chilkat.qa.s3.amazonaws.com";

// Send the GET request to query the bucket location.
NSString *strResult = [rest FullRequestNoBody: @"GET" uriPath: @"/?location"];
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

int responseStatusCode = [rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue];
NSLog(@"%@%d",@"Response status code = ",responseStatusCode);
if (responseStatusCode != 200) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.ResponseHeader);
    NSLog(@"%@",strResult);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Failed.");
    return;
}

NSLog(@"%@",strResult);

// 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
CkoXml *xml = [[CkoXml alloc] init];
success = [xml LoadXml: strResult];
NSLog(@"%@%@",@"region = ",xml.Content);