(VBScript) (using AWS Signature Version 2) Streaming Download to File

The main purpose of this example is to demonstrate how to use the older Signature Version 2 authentication w/ S3. It uses V2 authentication to download a file.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

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

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest")
set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
' The file is located in the bucket named "chilkat100", which becomes part of the domain:
success = rest.Connect("chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.AuthAws")
set authAws = CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthAws")
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
authAws.ServiceName = "s3"

' For AWS Signature Version 2, the following two properties need to be set:
authAws.SignatureVersion = 2
' See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/RESTAuthentication.html#ConstructingTheCanonicalizedResourceElement
authAws.CanonicalizedResourceV2 = "/chilkat100/starfish.jpg"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

' Send the request to download the JPG.
success = rest.SendReqNoBody("GET","/starfish.jpg")
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Read the response header.
responseStatusCode = rest.ReadResponseHeader()
If (responseStatusCode < 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Response status code = " & responseStatusCode)

' We expect a 200 response status if the JPG data is coming.
' Otherwise, we'll get a string response body with an error message(or no response body).
If (responseStatusCode = 200) Then

    ' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Stream")
    set bodyStream = CreateObject("Chilkat.Stream")

    ' The stream's sink will be a file.
    bodyStream.SinkFile = "qa_output/starfish.jpg"

    ' Read the response body to the stream.  Given that we've
    ' set the stream's sink to a file, it will stream directly
    ' to the file.
    success = rest.ReadRespBodyStream(bodyStream,1)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

    outFile.WriteLine("Successfully received the JPG file.")

Else
    errResponse = rest.ReadRespBodyString()
    If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    Else
        outFile.WriteLine(errResponse)
    End If

End If


outFile.Close