Swift get an object

To retrieve an object, make a GET request with the API version, account, container, and object name. You must have read permissions on the container to retrieve an object within it.

Syntax

GET /_AP_VERSION_/_ACCOUNT_/_TENANT_:_CONTAINER_/_OBJECT_ HTTP/1.1
Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME
X-Auth-Token: _AUTH_TOKEN_

Request Headers

range

Description: To retrieve a subset of an object’s contents, you can specify a byte range.
Type: Date
Required: No

If-Modified-Since

Description: Only copies if modified since the date and time of the source object’s last_modified attribute.
Type: Date
Required: No

If-Unmodified-Since

Description: Only copies if not modified since the date and time of the source object’s last_modified attribute.
Type: Date
Required: No

Copy-If-Match

Description: Copies only if the ETag in the request matches the source object’s ETag.
Type: ETag
Required: No

Copy-If-None-Match

Description: Copies only if the ETag in the request does not match the source object’s ETag.
Type: ETag
Required: No

Response Headers

Content-Range

Description: The range of the subset of object contents. Returned only if the range header field was specified in the request.