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Rackspace Cloud Files (using jclouds) - how to get container location
I use jclouds as an api for Rackspace Cloud Files.
Api allows me to create containers in different locations using BlobStore.createContainerInLocation
Now, having container that is already exists, how do I get it's location?

Eugene Loy
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Rackspace cloud files upload directly mobile client
I know about FormPost:
FormPost lets you offer your website audience a way to upload objects
to your Cloud Files account through a web form.
It work perfectly for website.
Is there a way to upload the file using the signature from mobile app,…

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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (Access-Control-Allow-Origin header) Rackspace Cloudfiles CDN
I am getting the following error on our live site in Chrome due to embedded font files in CSS all on our rackspace CDN:
Font from origin 'https://aaa-aaa.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com' has been blocked from loading by Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policy: No…

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How can I specify optional parameters when copy files in Openstack Swift using Java API
I'm using Rackspace Cloud Files (Openstack Swift) in Java application, and have the following scenario:
I upload files to a container (from web app, through my java rest backend) to a temporary location in rackspace container, and than, when some…

Andrey
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How do I give an Openstack server permissions to call the Openstack APIs?
I am aware of how the permission system works in AWS:
By giving an EC2 instance a specific IAM role, it is possible to give all programs running on that specific EC2 instance some set of permissions for accessing other AWS services (e.g. permission …

Erik Sjölund
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Rackspace CloudFile API - get object information
So, here's what I'm doing with the API:
Auth (to get token and publicUrl for the particular region I need from the "object-store")
Use the publicUrl from the endpoint like so to get a list of files:
GET [publicUrl]/[container]
This returns an array…

Mr Mikkél
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Processing an Image in Dart
I am currently trying to process an image on the server that was uploaded by a user. My goal is to take this image that was uploaded, process it on the server and then upload it to rackspace cloud files. I have had no luck in finding a way. I am…

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Skipper resize image before uploading using adapter
I have a similar question to this one. How can I have this upload to my RackSpace adapter as well?
Here's the code:
upload: function(req, res){
var RackspaceAdapter = require('../adapters/rackspace/index'),
receiver =…

Chris Coppenbarger
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CORS issue with Rackspace CloudFiles
I have an Angular 1.x application using the popular ng-file-upload to make a request to the Rackspace OpenCloud library for uploading files to a CDN.
In a nutshell the script below - uploads a file, sends it to the backend of the application & in…

Zabs
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Rackspace open cloud library Guzzle error
I am using OpenCloud library for Rackspace cloud files. Is there any updated library to use for Rackspace cloud files?
The current library works OK but gives the following error on composer:
Package guzzle/guzzle is abandoned, you should avoid using…

Raja Amer Khan
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PHP - Rackspace CloudFiles API check if the file path already exists?
I'm working with the Rackspace CloudFiles API, where I've got a requirement to check for folder exists inside a container.
I have searched across different areas I could find solution to find if container exists or the object exists.
For…

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Get buffer from Rackspace download using pkgcloud
This may not be possible but I am trying to return a buffer object of an image on Rackspace using the pkgcloud module without having to write to the filesystem. I've seen this done before however both examples show piping the download to the File…

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jclouds IOExpection: Error writing request body to server
We are using jclouds with Rackspace and when uploading lots of files via cloudfile api (multi threaded)
Once in while we are getting an exception on objectApi.put line (see example code at bottom)
Exception
16-Jul-2015 11:58:00.811 SEVERE…

oak
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How to check on Rackspace if the file is uploaded or not?
I'm working with the Rackspace PHP API, where I've got a requirement to check the file, if it exists then do something and if not then do something.
try {
$file = $container->getObject($end_element);
$fileExists = TRUE;
}
catch(Exception $e) {
…

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Rackspace Cloud Files - [curl] 6: Couldn't resolve host 'identity.api.rackspacecloud.com' Exception thrown
The code below in localhost works fine and in server it throws an error [curl] 6: Couldn't resolve host 'identity.api.rackspacecloud.com'
$client = new Rackspace(Rackspace::UK_IDENTITY_ENDPOINT, array(
'username' => $username,
…

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