(Perl) Amazon S3 Download String from Bucket in Region

Demonstrates how to download a text file (i.e. object) from an S3 bucket NOT in the us-east-1 region.

Chilkat Perl Downloads Perl Module for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Alpine Linux, Solaris

use chilkat();

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

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();

# Insert your access key here:
$http->put_AwsAccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");

# Insert your secret key here:
$http->put_AwsSecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");

# This bucket is in the eu-central-1 region.
$http->put_AwsRegion("eu-central-1");

$bucketName = "chilkateufrankfurt";

$objectName = "fruit.xml";

$charset = "utf-8";

$fileContents = $http->s3_DownloadString($bucketName,$objectName,$charset);

if ($http->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    # Failed
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
}
else {
    # Success
    print $fileContents . "\r\n";
}