title: IBM COS - can't get or create bucket with boto
body: <pre><code>from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection 
  conn = S3Connection('****', '****', host='s3.eu-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net')
  mybucket = conn.get_bucket('mybucket')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Returns</p>
  
  <pre><code>/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/boto/s3/connection.py in head_bucket(self, bucket_name, headers)
      551             err.error_code = 'NoSuchBucket'
      552             err.error_message = 'The specified bucket does not exist'
  --&gt; 553             raise err
      554         else:
      555             raise self.provider.storage_response_error(
  
  S3ResponseError: S3ResponseError: 404 Not Found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, if I try to create the bucket:</p>
  
  <pre><code>conn.create_bucket('mybucket')
  
  S3CreateError: S3CreateError: 409 Conflict
  &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?&gt;&lt;Error&gt;&lt;Code&gt;BucketAlreadyExists&lt;/Code&gt;&lt;Message&gt;Container mybucket exists&lt;/Message&gt;&lt;Resource&gt;/mybucket/&lt;/Resource&gt;&lt;RequestId&gt;****&lt;/RequestId&gt;&lt;httpStatusCode&gt;409&lt;/httpStatusCode&gt;&lt;/Error&gt;
  </code></pre>