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S3 Upload a File with Public Read Permissions

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Demonstrates how to upload a file to the Amazon S3 service with the x-amz-acl request header set to "public-read" to allow the file to be publicly downloadable.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

# Insert your AWS keys here:
http.put_AwsAccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY")
http.put_AwsSecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY")

bucketName = "chilkat.ocean"
objectName = "seahorse.jpg"
localFilePath = "qa_data/jpg/seahorse.jpg"
contentType = "image/jpg"

# Add the x-amz-acl request header to make the file publicly readable.
http.SetRequestHeader("x-amz-acl","public-read")

success = http.S3_UploadFile(localFilePath,contentType,bucketName,objectName)

if (success != true)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

if (http.get_LastStatus() == 200)
    print "File uploaded." + "\n";
else
    print "Response status code: " + http.get_LastStatus().to_s() + "\n";
    print http.lastResponseBody() + "\n";
end