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<h1 class="topictitle1">Obtaining Bucket Location</h1>
<div id="body33344080"><div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section5584184924715"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Functions</h4><p class="msonormal" id="obs_04_0024__p25590737">This operation obtains the location of a bucket. To use this operation, you must have the permission to read the bucket.</p>
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section28990045"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Request Syntax</h4><div class="codecoloring" codetype="Xml" id="obs_04_0024__screen16515950"><table class="highlighttable"><tr><td class="linenos"><div class="linenodiv"><pre>1
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Host: bucketname.obs.region.example.com
Date: date
Authorization: authorization
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section59583813"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Request Parameters</h4><p class="msonormal" id="obs_04_0024__p35421108">This request contains no parameters.</p>
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section66492276"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Request Headers</h4><p class="msonormal" id="obs_04_0024__p50537472">This request uses common headers. For details, see <a href="obs_04_0007.html#obs_04_0007__table25197309">Table 3</a>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section61559578"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Request Elements</h4><p class="msonormal" id="obs_04_0024__p66160209">This request contains no elements.</p>
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section17165296"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Response Syntax</h4><div class="codecoloring" codetype="Xml" id="obs_04_0024__screen57376732"><table class="highlighttable"><tr><td class="linenos"><div class="linenodiv"><pre>1
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Date: date
Content-Type: type
Content-Length: length

<span class="cp">&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot; standalone=&quot;yes&quot;?&gt;</span> 
<span class="nt">&lt;Location</span> <span class="na">xmlns=</span><span class="s">&quot;http://obs.region.example.com/doc/2015-06-30/&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>region<span class="nt">&lt;/Location&gt;</span>
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section20269944"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Response Headers</h4><p class="msonormal" id="obs_04_0024__p1512332591013">The response to the request uses common headers. For details, see <a href="obs_04_0013.html#obs_04_0013__d0e686">Table 1</a>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section48211769"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Response Elements</h4><p class="msonormal" id="obs_04_0024__p66238173">This response contains elements of information about a bucket's region. <a href="#obs_04_0024__table63691781">Table 1</a> describes the elements.</p>

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<tbody><tr id="obs_04_0024__row62255039"><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="50%" headers="mcps1.3.8.3.2.3.1.1 "><p id="obs_04_0024__p9493421">Location</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="50%" headers="mcps1.3.8.3.2.3.1.2 "><p id="obs_04_0024__p30769611">Indicates the region where the bucket resides.</p>
<p id="obs_04_0024__p8491043">Type: string</p>
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section31252742"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Error Responses</h4><p class="msonormal" id="obs_04_0024__p16685901">No special error responses are involved. For details about error responses, see <a href="obs_04_0115.html#obs_04_0115__d0e843">Table 2</a>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section14482163815396"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Sample Request</h4><div class="codecoloring" codetype="Xml" id="obs_04_0024__screen8484163863919"><table class="highlighttable"><tr><td class="linenos"><div class="linenodiv"><pre>1
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User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: examplebucket.obs.region.example.com
Accept: */*
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:30:25 GMT
Authorization: OBS H4IPJX0TQTHTHEBQQCEC:1DrmbCV+lhz3zV7uywlj7lrh0MY=
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<div class="section" id="obs_04_0024__section76081155815"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Sample Response</h4><div class="codecoloring" codetype="Xml" id="obs_04_0024__screen8485113814"><table class="highlighttable"><tr><td class="linenos"><div class="linenodiv"><pre> 1
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Server: OBS
x-obs-request-id: BF260000016435D9F27CB2758E9B41A5
x-obs-id-2: 32AAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABAAAQAAEAABCSKWoJmaMyRXqofHgapbETDyI2LM9rUw
Content-Type: application/xml
Date: WED, 01 Jul 2015 02:30:25 GMT
Content-Length: 128

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<span class="nt">&lt;Location</span> <span class="na">xmlns=</span><span class="s">&quot;http://obs.region.example.com/doc/2015-06-30/&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>region<span class="nt">&lt;/Location&gt;</span>
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