Environment variables required to run examples¶

To run the cURL command examples for the Object Storage API requests, set these environment variables:

publicURL

The public URL that is the HTTP endpoint from where you can access Object Storage. It includes the Object Storage API version number and your account name. For example, https://23.253.72.207/v1/my_account.

token

The authentication token for Object Storage.

To obtain these values, run the swift stat -v command.

As shown in this example, the public URL appears in the StorageURL field, and the token appears in the Auth Token field:

StorageURL: https://23.253.72.207/v1/my_account
Auth Token: {token}
Account: my_account
Containers: 2
Objects: 3
Bytes: 47
Meta Book: MobyDick
X-Timestamp: 1389453423.35964
X-Trans-Id: txee55498935404a2caad89-0052dd3b77
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Accept-Ranges: bytes