Obtaining Bucket Metadata

Functions

This operation queries the metadata of a bucket. To use this operation, you must have the permission to read the bucket.

Request Syntax

    
         HEAD / HTTP/1.1 
Host: bucketname.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.eu
Date: date
Authorization: authorization

Request Parameters

This request contains no parameters.

Request Headers

This request uses common headers. For details, see Table 3.

Table 1 lists the header fields required when obtaining CORS configuration information.

**Table 1** Request headers for obtaining CORS configuration
Header	Description	Mandatory
Origin	Origin of the cross-domain request specified by the pre-request. Generally, it is a domain name. Type: string	Yes
Access-Control-Request-Headers	HTTP headers of a request. The request can use multiple HTTP headers. Type: string	No

Request Elements

This request contains no elements.

Response Syntax

    
         HTTP/1.1 status_code
x-obs-bucket-location: region
Date: date

Response Headers

The response to the request uses common headers. For details, see Table 1.

In addition to the common response headers, the headers listed in Table 2 may be used.

**Table 2** Additional response headers
Header	Description
x-obs-bucket-location	The region where the bucket resides. Type: string
x-obs-storage-class	Default storage class of the bucket. The options are as follows: STANDARD (Standard), WARM (Infrequent Access), COLD (Archive). Type: string
x-obs-version	OBS version of the bucket. Type: string
x-obs-fs-file-interface	Indicates whether the bucket is a parallel file system. The value can be Enabled (parallel file system). If this header field is not carried, the bucket is not a parallel file system. Type: string
Access-Control-Allow-Origin	Indicates that the origin is included in the response if the origin in the request meets the CORS configuration requirements when CORS is configured for buckets. Type: string
Access-Control-Allow-Headers	Indicates that the headers are included in the response if headers in the request meet the CORS configuration requirements when CORS is configured for buckets. Type: string
Access-Control-Max-Age	Value of MaxAgeSeconds in the CORS configuration of the server when CORS is configured for buckets. Type: integer
Access-Control-Allow-Methods	Indicates that methods in the rule are included in the response if Access-Control-Request-Method in the request meets the CORS configuration requirements when CORS is configured for buckets. Type: string Value options: GET, PUT, HEAD, POST, DELETE
Access-Control-Expose-Headers	Value of ExposeHeader in the CORS configuration of a server when CORS is configured for buckets. Type: string

Response Elements

This response contains no elements.

Error Responses

No special error responses are returned. For details about error responses, see Table 2.

Sample Request: Getting CORS Configuration (with No Headers Specified)

    
         HEAD / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.eu
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:30:25 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:niCQCuGIZpETKIyx1datxHZyYlk=

Sample Response: Getting CORS Configuration (with No Headers Specified)

    
         HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF260000016439C734E0788404623FA8
Content-Type: application/xml
x-obs-storage-class: STANDARD
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSxwLpq9Hzf3OnaXr+pI/OPLKdrtiQAF
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:30:25 GMT
x-obs-bucket-location: region
x-obs-version: 3.0
Content-Length: 0

Sample Request: Getting Bucket Metadata and CORS Configuration

    
         HEAD / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.eu
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:30:25 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:niCQCuGIZpETKIyx1datxHZyYlk=
Origin:www.example.com
Access-Control-Request-Headers:AllowedHeader_1

Sample Response: Getting Bucket Metadata and CORS Configuration

    
         HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF260000016439C734E0788404623FA8
Content-Type: application/xml
x-obs-storage-class: STANDARD
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSxwLpq9Hzf3OnaXr+pI/OPLKdrtiQAF
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:30:25 GMT
x-obs-bucket-location: region
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: www.example.com 
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST,GET,HEAD,PUT 
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: AllowedHeader_1 
Access-Control-Max-Age: 100 
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ExposeHeader_1 
x-obs-version: 3.0
Content-Length: 0