(VBScript) S3 Find Bucket Region

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

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True)

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

set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest")

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

'  Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
set authAws = CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.AuthAws")
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.
strResult = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/?location")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

responseStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
outFile.WriteLine("Response status code = " & responseStatusCode)
If (responseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.ResponseHeader)
    outFile.WriteLine(strResult)
    outFile.WriteLine("Failed.")
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine(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
set xml = CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml")
success = xml.LoadXml(strResult)
outFile.WriteLine("region = " & xml.Content)

outFile.Close