REQUEST: batch processing; deleting directories recursively

Hello,

Can you provide an operation to delete a directory object and all the objects under it with one HTTP request? Otherwise it becomes a pretty time-consuming and inefficient way to delete multiple objects.

On the same note, is there any way of batch-processing operations on objects. i.e., instead of sending a single request on a single object, can we send the same operation for multiple objects or multiple operations on a single object? Again, this is very useful when processing thousands of objects.

thanks,

Navneeth