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uri - Interacts with webservices

Synopsis

Interacts with HTTP and HTTPS web services and supports Digest, Basic and WSSE HTTP authentication mechanisms.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
HEADER_
no
    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 may be removed in a future release. Use headers instead.
    body
    no
      The body of the http request/response to the web service. If body_format is set to 'json' it will take an already formated JSON string or convert a data structure into JSON.
      body_format
      (added in 2.0)
      no raw
      • raw
      • json
      The serialization format of the body. When set to json, encodes the body argument, if needed, and automatically sets the Content-Type header accordingly.
      creates
      no
        a filename, when it already exists, this step will not be run.
        dest
        no
          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
          no safe
          • all
          • safe
          • none
          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_basic_auth
          no no
          • yes
          • no
          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. This option forces the sending of the Basic authentication header upon initial request.
          headers
          (added in 2.1)
          no
            Add custom HTTP headers to a request in the format of a YAML hash
            method
            no GET
            • GET
            • POST
            • PUT
            • HEAD
            • DELETE
            • OPTIONS
            • PATCH
            • TRACE
            • CONNECT
            • REFRESH
            The HTTP method of the request or response. It MUST be uppercase.
            others
            no
              all arguments accepted by the file module also work here
              password
              no
                password for the module to use for Digest, Basic or WSSE authentication.
                removes
                no
                  a filename, when it does not exist, this step will not be run.
                  return_content
                  no no
                  • yes
                  • no
                  Whether or not to return the body of the request as a "content" key in the dictionary result. If the reported Content-type is "application/json", then the JSON is additionally loaded into a key called json in the dictionary results.
                  status_code
                  no 200
                    A valid, numeric, HTTP status code that signifies success of the request. Can also be comma separated list of status codes.
                    timeout
                    no 30
                      The socket level timeout in seconds
                      url
                      yes
                        HTTP or HTTPS URL in the form (http|https)://host.domain[:port]/path
                        user
                        no
                          username for the module to use for Digest, Basic or WSSE authentication.
                          validate_certs
                          (added in 1.9.2)
                          no yes
                          • yes
                          • no
                          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.

                          Examples

                          # Check that you can connect (GET) to a page and it returns a status 200
                          - uri: url=http://www.example.com
                          
                          # Check that a page returns a status 200 and fail if the word AWESOME is not
                          # in the page contents.
                          - action: uri url=http://www.example.com return_content=yes
                            register: webpage
                          
                          - action: fail
                            when: "'AWESOME' not in webpage.content"
                          
                          
                          # Create a JIRA issue
                          - uri:
                              url: https://your.jira.example.com/rest/api/2/issue/
                              method: POST
                              user: your_username
                              password: your_pass
                              body: "{{ lookup('file','issue.json') }}"
                              force_basic_auth: yes
                              status_code: 201
                              body_format: json
                          
                          # 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: "name=your_username&password=your_password&enter=Sign%20in"
                              status_code: 302
                              HEADER_Content-Type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
                            register: login
                          
                          - uri:
                              url: https://your.form.based.auth.example.com/dashboard.php
                              method: GET
                              return_content: yes
                              HEADER_Cookie: "{{login.set_cookie}}"
                          
                          # Queue build of a project in Jenkins:
                          - uri:
                              url: "http://{{ jenkins.host }}/job/{{ jenkins.job }}/build?token={{ jenkins.token }}"
                              method: GET
                              user: "{{ jenkins.user }}"
                              password: "{{ jenkins.password }}"
                              force_basic_auth: yes
                              status_code: 201
                          

                          Notes

                          Note

                          The dependency on httplib2 was removed in Ansible 2.1

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