Questions tagged [cloudfiles]

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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jcloud : should i keep BlobStoreContext instances?

I've got the following method which allows me to upload files to containers on Rackspace CloudFiles : /** * Uploads a file to the storage. * * @param f the File which is to be uploaded to the storage. * @param fileContainer…
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How to enable CDN with JClouds and Rackspace via Clojure?

I'm attempting to use JCLouds via Clojure and would like to use the blobstore abstraction to create containers and then enable CDN serving on those containers. So far I haven't had much success. I'm not a Java programmer so I'm not quite sure how to…
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OpenStack Rackspace Cloud Files .net SDK

I am trying to save an XML file to a non CDN Container from Sydney: public void Save(XDocument document) { using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream()) { document.Save(ms); ms.Position = 0; RackspaceCloudIdentity…
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Getting an object's links in Rackspace cloud files API

I am using the Java jclouds API for access to my Rackspace cloud files account. I can create and list containers, and upload objects, but I can't figure out how to get the public links for an uploaded object. (I can see these public links from…
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Cloud Files - Override Expires and Cache-Control headers that CDN sends to Browser but not the CDN's TTL

I'm trying to get a single file to be cached for 3 days on the Cloud Files CDN (Akamai) but then send the file to the browser with the headers: Expires: Time Now.. Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store I know Akamai has the Edge-control header for…
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Force expiring OpenStack Swift Tokens

Is there a way to force expire or revoke OpenStack Swift Tokens? I am looking some API method to do this. Bing / Google search didn't return anything useful.
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Mosso Python Module

Has anybody had success installing the Mosso (cloudfiles) python module? I'm trying to install it and getting the following error. python-cloudfiles-1.3.1]# python setup.py install running install running build running build_py running…
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CarrierWave crop file on Cloud (fog)

I am trying to crop an image with CarrierWave and put it on the cloud fog(cloud_files). How can I do this? Will I have to download a copy as a tempfile, crop that, and then upload it back? If the above steps are right, then how would I do them?
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Direct upload to Rackspace's Cloud Files

I'm working on a solution for video upload. I have a Rails 3.1 app, and the basic needs are for the files to be uploaded to Rackspace's Cloud Files, then we'll do some encoding, and then we can display the video files to the users. My problem…
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Rails 3 - CarrierWave and CloudFiles extremely slow

I have an Rails 3 application where I upload files (photos) using CarrierWave to Rackspace CloudFiles. This works perfectly. But when displaying a list of 10 to 20 photos back on a page it takes a very long time >15 seconds. It seems to take time to…
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Rails send_file alternative with Rackspace Cloudfiles

I am trying to setup a download link for a file management system built on Rails 3 using the paperclip-cloudfiles gem. The send_file method works great when hosting files locally, but I need to use the Rackspace Cloudfiles system. I've tried setting…
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Rails + Carrierwave + RS Cloudfiles, how can I use multiple containers for one app?

I am developing an app that utilizes two different uploaders. What I am trying to do is to assign each uploader to different cloudfiles containers. I seem to unable to find any documentation about this, could anyone please help? Thanks!!
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Problem connecting to Rackspace Cloud Files in the UK

Any idea why the following code $auth = new CF_Authentication(USERNAME, API_KEY, NULL, UK_AUTHURL); is giving me PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidResponseException' with message 'Unexpected response (): ' in…
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cloudfiles remote file problem

I am trying to load a file to my Cloud Files Container from a remote file. Below is the example code a Cloud Files Support person gave me:
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Port files from Cloudfiles to S3

I have to migrate off Rackspace to Amazon. I have a big rails app that has saved lots of files on Cloudfiles and I ll have to export them to S3. Are you aware of any script or process to do that migration? Thank you
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