Windows azure REST API to List containers issue

Question

I\'m trying to list the containers in my windows azure storage account. but i\'m struck with an exception
\"The remote server returned an error: (403) Server failed to

Answer 1

Please change your StringToSign to:

        string StringToSign = String.Format("GET\n"
            + "\n" // content encoding
            + "\n" // content language
            + "\n" // content length
            + "\n" // content md5
            + "\n" // content type
            + "\n" // date
            + "\n" // if modified since
            + "\n" // if match
            + "\n" // if none match
            + "\n" // if unmodified since
            + "\n" // range
            + "x-ms-date:" + dataStr + "\nx-ms-version:2014-02-14\n" // headers
            + "/{0}/\ncomp:list", Account);//Notice an extra "/" after "{0}"

It was missing a / after account name placeholder (last line in the code above). Once you do that, you should be able to see the list of containers returned in XML format.