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CloudFiles is Rackspace's Object Storage service, based on OpenStack Swift.

CloudFiles is Rackspace's Object Storage service, which allows you to upload and download arbitrary objects/files. Object containers can be enabled to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make object retrieval faster for users.

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How can I use boto to stream a file out of Amazon S3 to Rackspace Cloudfiles?

I'm copying a file from S3 to Cloudfiles, and I would like to avoid writing the file to disk. The Python-Cloudfiles library has an object.stream() call that looks to be what I need, but I can't find an equivalent call in boto. I'm hoping that I…
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Ruby on Rails 3: Streaming data through Rails to client

I am working on a Ruby on Rails app that communicates with RackSpace cloudfiles (similar to Amazon S3 but lacking some features). Due to the lack of the availability of per-object access permissions and query string authentication, downloads to…
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Scaling images stored at S3

I'm in a situation where I need to push image storage for a number of websites out to a service that can scale indefinitely (S3, CloudFiles, etc.). Up until this point we've been able to allow our users to generate custom thumbnail sizes on the fly…
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How do I upload many files at the time to cloud files with Python?

I'm using the cloudfile module to upload files to rackspace cloud files, using something like this pseudocode: import cloudfiles username = '---' api_key = '---' conn = cloudfiles.get_connection(username, api_key) testcontainer =…
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Looking for tips on integrating TinyMCE Image Manager with S3 or Rackspace CloudFiles

We are moving away from using a local file system for all our media and moving it over to Cloud Files (Rackspace). The downer is that we use the ImageManager plugin which seems to rely heavily on doing filesystem commands to generate lists of files…
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check if object exists in Cloud Files (PHP API)

I've just started working with the PHP API for Rackspace Cloud Files. So far so good-- but I am using it as sort of a poor man's memcache, storing key/value pairs of serialized data. My app attempts to grab the existing cached object by its key…
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Hosting and Accessing an HDF5 file on Amazon EC2, S3, and/or EBS

I'm looking to place a rather large HDF5 file online and am looking at Amazon S3 and/or EBS as a possible place to store it and possibly leverage an EC2 instance or two for back-end processing. I'm looking for practical ideas of how it can or has…
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changing django-storages backend from from s3 to cloudfiles and dealing with old files

I've got a django app that I'm moving to rackspace. I have a model that uses FileFields and I'm using the django-storages library s3/boto backend. I want to use cloudfiles for storage, and I need to be able to serve up the old s3 content. On a…
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html link to client side file

I am developing in ASP.net a web application which among other things should list documents available on a remote server. this is for a very restricted number of users for which we can control the end PC. What i need is the end user to click on a…
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Rackspace cloudfiles API fairly slow

I would like to improve the speed of my script that uploads a small 20kb file to cloudfiles, currently it takes 3 seconds but have seen it take more, up to about 7 seconds. Basically it does the following... Authenticates Connects Gets a…
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Browser-based upload to OpenStack ObjectStorage

I want to give my users possibility to upload files directly to my cloud on OpenStack using temp url's and HTML POST form. In openstack docs they have: Upload objects directly to the Object Storage system from a browser by using form POST…
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Rails, Rackspace Cloud Files, Referrer ACL

I am using Rackspace Cloud Files as File Storage server for my application. The files that users upload must be authorized from within my application, then from a controller it would redirect to the correct Rackspace Cloud Files CDN URL. I am trying…
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Error creating BlobContext using jclouds in a Spring MVC application

I have a Spring MVC 4.0.1 web application that needs to upload files to Rackspace Cloud Files. I am using Apache jClouds in order to do this. When trying to create the BlobStore using the following code: BlobStoreContext context =…
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How do I make Cloudfiles FormPost return the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header to enable CORS?

I want to enable CORS in my Rackspace CluodFiles container, so after reading the docs, I see I have to set some container metadata (I'm using Python and Pyrax): from pyrax import cloudfiles cloudfiles.set_container_metadata(container_name, { …
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openstack swift: The server has waited too long for the request to be sent by the client

we get few of these now and then: Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: org.jclouds.http.HttpResponseException: command: PUT {{PUT_URL}} HTTP/1.1 failed with response: HTTP/1.1 408 Request Timeout; content: [

Request Timeout

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