Specifying metadata on object creation request contents

Here’s a sample HTTP PUT request that stores a file named Q1_2012.ppt in the quarterly_rpts directory, sets the retention value for the object to the Reg-107 class, and sets the shred setting for the object to true.

Request with curl command line

curl -k -iT Q1_2012.ppt
    -H "Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"
    "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com/rest/quarterly_rpts/
    Q1_2012.ppt?retention=C+Reg-107&shred=true"

Request in Python using PycURL

import pycurl
import os
filehandle = open("Q1_2012.ppt", 'rb')
curl = pycurl.Curl()
curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: HCP
  bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"])
curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com \
  /rest/quarterly_rpts/Q1_2012.ppt?retention=C+Reg-107"
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.UPLOAD, 1)
curl.setopt(pycurl.INFILESIZE, os.path.getsize("Q1_2012.ppt"))
curl.setopt(pycurl.READFUNCTION, filehandle.read)
curl.perform()
print curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE)
curl.close()
filehandle.close()

 

Request headers

PUT /rest/quarterly_rpts/Q1_2012.ppt?retention=C+Reg-107 HTTP/1.1
Host: finance.europe.hcp.example.com
Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d
Content-Length: 678400

Response headers

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
X-HCP-ServicedBySystem: hcp.example.com
ETag: "9c604138ffb0f308a8552a3752e5a1be"
Location: /rest/quarterly_rpts/Q1_2012.ppt
X-HCP-VersionId: 80238663473089
X-HCP-Hash: SHA-256 E830B86212A66A792A79D58BB185EE63A4FADA76BB8A1C...
X-HCP-Time: 1334829227
Content-Length: 0

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