(Visual Basic 6.0) S3 Find Bucket Region

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

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

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest

' Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server using the correct region (in this example, "us-west-2")
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim port As Long
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
Dim success As Long
success = rest.Connect("s3.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
Dim authAws As New ChilkatAuthAws
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.
Dim strResult As String
strResult = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/?location")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim responseStatusCode As Long
responseStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
Debug.Print "Response status code = " & responseStatusCode
If (responseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print strResult
    Debug.Print "Failed."
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print 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
Dim xml As New ChilkatXml
success = xml.LoadXml(strResult)
Debug.Print "region = " & xml.Content