Updated on 2026-03-06 GMT+08:00

Obtaining Bucket Location

Functions

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

You are advised to use the API in Obtaining Bucket Metadata to obtain the bucket location.

Authorization Information

To call this API, you must be the bucket owner or have the permission to obtain the bucket location. You are advised to use IAM or bucket policies for authorization. For details about OBS authorization methods, see Differences Between OBS Permissions Control Methods.

  • If you use IAM for authorization, you need to use either role/policy-based authorization or identity policy-based authorization and configure the required permissions:
    • If you use role/policy-based authorization (IAM v3 APIs in the old IAM version), you need to grant the obs:bucket:GetBucketLocation permission. For details, see Creating a Custom IAM Policy.
    • If you use identity policy-based authorization (IAM v5 APIs in the new IAM version), you need to grant the obs:bucket:getBucketLocation permission, as shown in the following table. For details, see Creating a Custom IAM Identity Policy.

      Action

      Access Level

      Resource Type (*: Required)

      Condition Key

      Alias

      Dependencies

      obs:bucket:getBucketLocation

      Read

      bucket *

      -

      -

      -

      • obs:EpochTime
      • obs:SourceIp
      • obs:TlsVersion
      • obs:CustomDomain
  • If you use bucket policies for authorization, you need to grant the obs:bucket:GetBucketLocation permission. For details, see Creating a Custom Bucket Policy.

Request Syntax

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GET /?location HTTP/1.1 
Host: bucketname.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com 
Date: date
Authorization: authorization

Request Parameters

This request contains no parameters.

Request Headers

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

Request Elements

This request contains no elements.

Response Syntax

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HTTP/1.1 status_code
Date: date
Content-Type: type
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> 
<Location xmlns="http://obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com/doc/2015-06-30/">region</Location>

Response Headers

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

Response Elements

This response contains elements of information about a bucket's region. Table 1 describes the elements.

Table 1 Response elements

Element

Description

Location

Indicates the region where the bucket resides.

Type: string

Error Responses

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

Sample Request

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GET /?location HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:30:25 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:1DrmbCV+lhz3zV7uywlj7lrh0MY=

Sample Response

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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF260000016435D9F27CB2758E9B41A5
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSKWoJmaMyRXqofHgapbETDyI2LM9rUw
Content-Type: application/xml
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:30:25 GMT
Content-Length: 128

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Location xmlns="http://obs.region.myhuaweicloud.com/doc/2015-06-30/">region</Location>