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Amazon S3 Download String from Bucket in Region

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

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

set http = CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

' Insert your access key here:
http.AwsAccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"

' Insert your secret key here:
http.AwsSecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"

' This bucket is in the eu-central-1 region.
http.AwsRegion = "eu-central-1"

bucketName = "chilkateufrankfurt"

objectName = "fruit.xml"

charset = "utf-8"

fileContents = http.S3_DownloadString(bucketName,objectName,charset)

If (http.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    ' Failed
    outFile.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
Else
    ' Success
    outFile.WriteLine(fileContents)
End If


outFile.Close