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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Setting up CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin on Rackspace Cloud Files?

Can anyone provide any insight into how CORS works on Rackspace Cloud Files? I tried setting the value of "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" to the url of my webserver but I can still access the public url of the object by just pasting it into a…
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Best practices for updating user created content on CDN

I'm having a hard time making a decision on how to handle user generated uploads without storing filename values in a database. When a user uploads say, a profile avatar/image, I create it on the CDN. My avatar helper in PHP knows the container's…
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Rackspace Cloud Files (OpenStack Swift) TempUrl Example in vb.net

Can anyone provide an example for rackspace cloud files tempurl function in .net (c# or vb.net)? There is documentation at the RackSpace site at: http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/files/api/v1/cf-devguide/cf-devguide-20121130.pdf starting on page…
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File Upload with Rackspace

I'm using RestSharp to consume the Rackspace restful API here. The documentation shows you how to create the request but I don't see where do I need to specify the data source(file I want to upload to rackspace). PUT /
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FileConveyor - cumulus - Files not showing up on CloudFiles

I've installed FileConveyor and django cumulus (which is the replacement for mosso). I created a test directory at /home/drupal/conveyortest which I use as the scanPath. When I start the FileConveyor daemon, I'm told that the js and css files are…
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Saving images to Rackspace with paperclip/cloudfiles

I have my rails app filled with about 30000 products from various suppliers. Currently each product image_url is being hosted by individual suppliers. How would I go about saving each image from the image_url to my rackspace account, and make sure…
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Track progress when uploading file to Rackspace Cloud Files in C#

I am using https://github.com/rackspace/csharp-cloudfiles to bulid a command-line tool to upload files to Rackspace Cloud Files. The thing is that I don't know how to track upload progress (there doesn't seem to be any kind of event or…
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Rackspace Cloud Files PHP get_objects at the "Root level"

I have been trying to figure out how to get files that are at the Root level, meaning get all files that don't have a path attached to their file name. I have a container that looks like this image.png image/png ui …
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rackspace cloudfiles delay before on CDN after upload

I am implementing rackspace cloudfiles for a site. If a user uploads a profile image we want to store it on cloudfiles in a CDN enabled container. This works only it takes a couple of secs before the file is available on the CDN. So when you upload…
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node-cloudfiles module - Is there a way to track upload progress

If anyone here is familiar with the node-cloudfiles module for node.js, I could use some help in several different areas. Unfortunately, is seems the authors are nearly impossible to reach via their github repo (EDIT: nevermind, someone did reach…
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cloudfiles API: uncaught exception with get_container when container doesn't exist

I'm using the rackspace cloudfiles API to upload files on the fly and the first thing it needs to do is check whether the container exists and if not, create it. So I write the following: if($container = $conn->get_container('my_container')){ …
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Issue uploading images/non text files to Rackspace Cloudfiles (MisMatchedChecksumException) via PHP API

I am having an issue uploading to Rackspace Cloudfiles. I am able to upload anything that is text based (text/html, text/plain etc) but anything else I try fails with the MisMatchedChecksumException which, as I understand it, means the md5_file() on…
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Rackspace CloudFiles C# API: How to list files on root 'folder', and how to list (sub)folders within a 'folder'?

(1) I can list the files on a folder this way: var parameters = new Dictionary(); parameters.Add(GetListParameters.Path, "folder1/"); // get items from this specific path var containerItemList =…
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Rackspace CloudFiles .NET library: delimiter query parameter?

Is the 'delimiter' query parameter implemented in the c# (.NET) library? I could not find it. Ref.: http://docs.rackspace.com/files/api/v1/cf-devguide/content/List_Objects-d1e1284.html
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RackSpace Cloudfiles api error 'Undefined offset: 8'

When trying to upload files to rackspace cloudfiles, I am getting this error. I tried to trace the source of error and I assume that it is coming from this line of code: $container = $conn->get_container('test'); This is the complete error that I am…
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