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Swift Public Container and X-CDN tags

Asked by Daniel Marzini

Hi all,
first of all, Thank you for your wonderful work.

I've Played a lot with swift and I read that the public container was not supported in austin release.
After the Bexar release, in the documentation (link: http://docs.openstack.org/openstack-object-storage/developer/content/ch02s01.html) inside the authentication section, something new appears:

Example 2.2. Authentication Response

  HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
  Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2010 15:32:21 GMT
  Server: Apache
  X-Storage-Url: https://storage.swiftdrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_34
  X-CDN-Management-Url: https://cdn.swiftdrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_34
  X-Auth-Token: eaaafd18-0fed-4b3a-81b4-663c99ec1cbb
  Content-Length: 0
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

I'm not able to reproduce the same response. My Swift SAIO does not reply with the X-CDN-Management-Url.

Is there an error in the documentation o I have to troubleshoot, once again, my swift installation?

Thanking you,
Regards,
Daniel

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Best Colin Nicholson (colin-nicholson) said : 		#1

Hi Daniel,

I think that this is an error in the documentation, perhaps being copied and pasted from the Rackspace Cloud Files docs - swift does not support CDN. It does, however, support public containers.

You can make a container public with this command:

st -A https://swift.auth.url/auth/v1.0 -U <account:user> -K <key> post -r .r:* <container>

You'll then be able to access all files in this container using its usual url, but without having to authenticate.

Regards,
Colin

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Daniel Marzini (daniel-marzini) said : 		#2

Thank You Very Much Colin!

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Stephen A. Broeker (sbroeker) said : 		#3

If I am not using CDN, but setting the X-Container-Read header for a container,
what is the URL that I can use to directly access the container?

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sujay (sujay-m17) said : 		#4

Hi,

Can i make a public container such that i need not authenticate if i want to upload files into it? How to do it?