diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rackspacecloud/client/cloudfiles/FilesClient.java b/src/main/java/com/rackspacecloud/client/cloudfiles/FilesClient.java
index 753a79e..bfd9b5d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rackspacecloud/client/cloudfiles/FilesClient.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rackspacecloud/client/cloudfiles/FilesClient.java
@@ -2048,7 +2048,7 @@ public class FilesClient
     - @throws HttpException There was a protocol level error talking to CloudFiles
     - @throws FilesException There was an error talking to CloudFiles.
     -/
-public boolean storeObjectAs(String container, String name, RequestEntity entity, Map<String,String> metadata, String md5sum) throws IOException, HttpException, FilesException
+public String storeObjectAs(String container, String name, RequestEntity entity, Map<String,String> metadata, String md5sum) throws IOException, HttpException, FilesException
     {
        if (this.isLoggedin())
        {
@@ -2089,7 +2089,7 @@ public boolean storeObjectAs(String container, String name, RequestEntity entity
                                if (response.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_CREATED)
                                {
                                        logger.debug ("Object stored : " + name);
-                                       return true;
+                                       return response.getResponseHeader(FilesConstants.E_TAG).getValue();
                                }
                                else {
                                        logger.debug(response.getStatusLine());
@@ -2704,7 +2704,6 @@ public boolean storeObjectAs(String container, String name, RequestEntity entity
        private HttpMethod doUpdateObjectMetadata(String container, 
                        String object, Map<String,String> metadata) 
                        throws HttpException, IOException {
-                       HttpClient httpClient;
                        PostMethod method;
                        
                method = new PostMethod(storageURL +
@@ -2718,8 +2717,7 @@ public boolean storeObjectAs(String container, String name, RequestEntity entity
                                                FilesClient.sanitizeForURI(metadata.get(key)));
                        }
                        
-                       httpClient = new HttpClient();
-                       httpClient.executeMethod(method);
+                       client.executeMethod(method);
 
                        return method;
                }