Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL from Windows PC needs extra steps than from UNIX based OS. Advantage of cURL CLI is performing jobs programmatically. With the new Rackspace Control Panel, we can use various features with a GUI without the need of Command Line Interface, however there are advantages of Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL, that is performing jobs programmatically plus some features still needs cURL, Python or PHP.
Preparation for Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL
This guide Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL from Windows PC, is not intended to show hundreds of examples, they are already in the official website, The Rackspace Cloud Developers Guide for Cloud Files. This is only to show an instance of Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL from Windows PC.
Steps for Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL from Windows PC
The most important step for Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL from Windows PC is Installing cURL in Windows to Run cURL Commands Natively, which we have described in details in a previous guide.
After this setup is done, you can perform certain actions programmatically, you can not use the wide range of free scripts from Windows.
As an example for the sake of this Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL from Windows PC guide, we are taking that, you have already done the previous steps from the guide and is running Windows Command Line Tool.
This is an example line, executing it will show the content details :
curl -I -H "X-Auth-Token: Use-Your-Rackspace-API-Key" http://c767196.r96.cf2.rackcdn.com/cloud.png
This ends this small guide to Accessing Rackspace Cloud Files Using cURL from Windows PC, you can check Rackspace’s docs for advanced usages. Please remember, you can not perform all actions from Windows desktop. If you do not use Linux or Mac, you can use PuTTY and login to your Cloud Server, where actually you will deploy the methods.
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