uri – Interacts with webservices
Synopsis
- Interacts with HTTP and HTTPS web services and supports Digest, Basic and WSSE HTTP authentication mechanisms.
- For Windows targets, use the win_uri module instead.
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
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body raw | The body of the http request/response to the web service. If body_format is set to 'json' it will take an already formatted JSON string or convert a data structure into JSON. If body_format is set to 'form-urlencoded' it will convert a dictionary or list of tuples into an 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' string. (Added in v2.7) | |
body_format string added in 2.0 |
| The serialization format of the body. When set to json or form-urlencoded , encodes the body argument, if needed, and automatically sets the Content-Type header accordingly. As of 2.3 it is possible to override the `Content-Type` header, when set to json or form-urlencoded via the headers option. |
client_cert path added in 2.4 | PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication. This file can also include the key as well, and if the key is included, client_key is not required | |
client_key path added in 2.4 | PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication. If client_cert contains both the certificate and key, this option is not required. | |
creates path | A filename, when it already exists, this step will not be run. | |
dest path | A path of where to download the file to (if desired). If dest is a directory, the basename of the file on the remote server will be used. | |
follow_redirects string |
| Whether or not the URI module should follow redirects. all will follow all redirects. safe will follow only "safe" redirects, where "safe" means that the client is only doing a GET or HEAD on the URI to which it is being redirected. none will not follow any redirects. Note that yes and no choices are accepted for backwards compatibility, where yes is the equivalent of all and no is the equivalent of safe . yes and no are deprecated and will be removed in some future version of Ansible. |
force boolean |
| If yes do not get a cached copy.aliases: thirsty |
force_basic_auth boolean |
| Force the sending of the Basic authentication header upon initial request. The library used by the uri module only sends authentication information when a webservice responds to an initial request with a 401 status. Since some basic auth services do not properly send a 401, logins will fail. |
HEADER_ dictionary | Any parameter starting with "HEADER_" is a sent with your request as a header. For example, HEADER_Content-Type="application/json" would send the header "Content-Type" along with your request with a value of "application/json". This option is deprecated as of 2.1 and will be removed in Ansible 2.9. Use headers instead. | |
headers dictionary added in 2.1 | Add custom HTTP headers to a request in the format of a YAML hash. As of 2.3 supplying Content-Type here will override the header generated by supplying json or form-urlencoded for body_format. | |
http_agent string | Default: "ansible-httpget" | Header to identify as, generally appears in web server logs. |
method string | Default: "GET" | The HTTP method of the request or response. In more recent versions we do not restrict the method at the module level anymore but it still must be a valid method accepted by the service handling the request. |
others - | All arguments accepted by the file module also work here | |
remote_src boolean added in 2.7 |
| If no , the module will search for src on originating/master machine.If yes the module will use the src path on the remote/target machine. |
removes path | A filename, when it does not exist, this step will not be run. | |
return_content boolean |
| Whether or not to return the body of the response as a "content" key in the dictionary result. Independently of this option, if the reported Content-type is "application/json", then the JSON is always loaded into a key called json in the dictionary results. |
src path added in 2.7 | Path to file to be submitted to the remote server. Cannot be used with body. | |
status_code list | Default: [200] | A list of valid, numeric, HTTP status codes that signifies success of the request. |
timeout integer | Default: 30 | The socket level timeout in seconds |
unix_socket - added in 2.8 | Path to Unix domain socket to use for connection | |
url string / required | HTTP or HTTPS URL in the form (http|https)://host.domain[:port]/path | |
url_password string | A password for the module to use for Digest, Basic or WSSE authentication. aliases: password | |
url_username string | A username for the module to use for Digest, Basic or WSSE authentication. aliases: user | |
use_proxy boolean |
| If no , it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts. |
validate_certs boolean |
| If no , SSL certificates will not be validated.This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.Prior to 1.9.2 the code defaulted to no . |
Notes
Note
- The dependency on httplib2 was removed in Ansible 2.1.
- The module returns all the HTTP headers in lower-case.
- For Windows targets, use the win_uri module instead.
See Also
See also
- get_url – Downloads files from HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP to node
- The official documentation on the get_url module.
- win_uri – Interacts with webservices
- The official documentation on the win_uri module.
Examples
- name: Check that you can connect (GET) to a page and it returns a status 200 uri: url: http://www.example.com - name: Check that a page returns a status 200 and fail if the word AWESOME is not in the page contents uri: url: http://www.example.com return_content: yes register: this failed_when: "'AWESOME' not in this.content" - name: Create a JIRA issue uri: url: https://your.jira.example.com/rest/api/2/issue/ user: your_username password: your_pass method: POST body: "{{ lookup('file','issue.json') }}" force_basic_auth: yes status_code: 201 body_format: json - name: Login to a form based webpage, then use the returned cookie to access the app in later tasks uri: url: https://your.form.based.auth.example.com/index.php method: POST body_format: form-urlencoded body: name: your_username password: your_password enter: Sign in status_code: 302 register: login - name: Login to a form based webpage using a list of tuples uri: url: https://your.form.based.auth.example.com/index.php method: POST body_format: form-urlencoded body: - [ name, your_username ] - [ password, your_password ] - [ enter, Sign in ] status_code: 302 register: login - name: Connect to website using a previously stored cookie uri: url: https://your.form.based.auth.example.com/dashboard.php method: GET return_content: yes headers: Cookie: "{{ login.set_cookie }}" - name: Queue build of a project in Jenkins uri: url: http://{{ jenkins.host }}/job/{{ jenkins.job }}/build?token={{ jenkins.token }} user: "{{ jenkins.user }}" password: "{{ jenkins.password }}" method: GET force_basic_auth: yes status_code: 201 - name: POST from contents of local file uri: url: https://httpbin.org/post method: POST src: file.json - name: POST from contents of remote file uri: url: https://httpbin.org/post method: POST src: /path/to/my/file.json remote_src: yes
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
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elapsed integer | on success | The number of seconds that elapsed while performing the download Sample: 23 |
msg string | always | The HTTP message from the request Sample: OK (unknown bytes) |
redirected boolean | on success | Whether the request was redirected |
status integer | always | The HTTP status code from the request Sample: 200 |
url string | always | The actual URL used for the request Sample: https://www.ansible.com/ |
Status
- This module is guaranteed to have no backward incompatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]
Red Hat Support
More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.
Authors
- Romeo Theriault (@romeotheriault)
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