You can now set ACLs on containers.

src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage.php

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 namespace HPCloud\Storage;
 
 use HPCloud\Storage\ObjectStorage\Container;
+use HPCloud\Storage\ObjectStorage\ACL;
 
 /**
  * Access to ObjectStorage (Swift).
@@ -270,13 +271,29 @@ class ObjectStorage {
    *
    * @param string $name
    *   The name of the container.
+   * @param \HPCloud\Storage\ObjectStorage\ACL $acl
+   *   An access control list object. By default, a container is
+   *   non-public (private). To change this behavior, you can add a
+   *   custom ACL. To make the container publically readable, you can
+   *   use this: `ACL::publicRead()`.
    * @return boolean
    *   TRUE if the container was created, FALSE if the container was not
    *   created because it already exists.
    */
-  public function createContainer($name) {
+  public function createContainer($name, ACL $acl = NULL) {
     $url = $this->url() . '/' . urlencode($name);
-    $data = $this->req($url, 'PUT', FALSE);
+    $headers = array(
+      'X-Auth-Token' => $this->token(),
+    );
+
+    $client = \HPCloud\Transport::instance();
+    // Add ACLs to header.
+    if (!empty($acl)) {
+      $headers += $acl->headers();
+    }
+
+    $data = $client->doRequest($url, 'PUT', $headers);
+    syslog(LOG_WARNING, print_r($data, TRUE));
 
     $status = $data->status();
 

src/HPCloud/Storage/ObjectStorage/Container.php

@@ -480,6 +480,19 @@ class Container implements \Countable, \IteratorAggregate {
     return $this->objectQuery($params, $limit, $marker);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Get the URL to this container.
+   *
+   * Any container that has been created will have a valid URL. If the
+   * Container was set to be public (See 
+   * ObjectStorage::createContainer()) will be accessible by this URL.
+   *
+   * @return
+   */
+  public function url() {
+    return $this->url;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Perform the HTTP query for a list of objects and de-serialize the
    * results.

test/Tests/ObjectStorageTest.php

@@ -155,4 +155,25 @@ class ObjectStorageTest extends \HPCloud\Tests\TestCase {
     $store->deleteContainer($testCollection);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @depends testCreateContainer
+   */
+  public function testCreateContainerPublic() {
+    $testCollection = self::$settings['hpcloud.swift.container'] . 'PUBLIC';
+    $store = $this->swiftAuth();
+    if ($store->hasContainer($testCollection)) {
+      $store->deleteContainer($testCollection);
+    }
+    $ret = $store->createContainer($testCollection, \HPCloud\Storage\ObjectStorage\ACL::publicRead());
+
+    // Now test that we can get the container contents. Since there is
+    // no content in the container, we use the format=xml to make sure
+    // we get some data back.
+    $container = $store->container($testCollection);
+    $url = $container->url() . '?format=xml';
+    $data = file_get_contents($url);
+    $this->assertNotEmpty($data, $url);
+
+    $store->deleteContainer($testCollection);
+  }
 }