The following section describes the ReST API for interacting with the storage component of OpenStack Object Storage. All requests will be directed to the host and URL described in the X-Storage-Url HTTP header obtained during successful authentication.

The following are some pointers for the use of the storage services:

  • Container names cannot exceed 256 bytes and cannot contain a '/' character

  • Object names cannot exceed 1024 bytes and have no character restrictions

  • Object and container names must be URL-encoded and UTF-8 encoded