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mattdulson
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May 3rd, 2017 07:00
How can I use curl to interact with the Unity REST API
My issue is around getting authorization information.
"curl -k -X GET https://ipaddressofmyarray/api/types/basicSystemInfo/instances" works fine, because it does not need any authorization
I then tried:
curl -H "Accept:application/json" -H "Content-type:application/json" -H "X-EMC-REST-CLIENT:true" -H "Authorization:Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" -k -X GET https://ipaddressofmyarray/api/types/system/instances?fields=name,model,serialNumber
Where XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the Base64 encoding of "admin:myarraypassword"
I know that I need to get the EMC-CSRF-TOKEN/Ticket granting cookie but was expecting to get this with the first GET request I do - should I be using a different URL to do this initial authorization, or does any GET to a valid URL work?
I've seen perl and python examples, but as I am not familiar with either of these 2 languages, then this doesn't help me much.
The response I get is:
Found
The document has moved https://ipaddressofmyarray/cas/login?service=https%3a%2f%2fipaddressofmyarray%2fapi%2ftypes%2fsystem%2finstances%3ffields%3dname,model,serialNumber">here.
Matt
mattdulson
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Posted May 8th, 2017 08:00
Just in case this is of use to anyone else, the above is OK for GET commands, but POST/DELETE gets a bit more complicated. In theory it's just a case of grabbing the EMC-CSRF-TOKEN on the first GET after the login, but unless the cookie curl uses is updated as part of this initial GET, with MOD_AUTH_CAS_S then EMC-CSRF-TOKEN changes on every subsequent GET.
Rainer_EMC
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Posted May 8th, 2017 23:00
just curious - if you dont want to do real programming why not use the UEMCLI which gives you the same functionality as the REST API ?
I think its easier to script than REST via curl
mattdulson
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Posted May 9th, 2017 00:00
It's principally because this is part of some automation for AIX systems, and there is no CLI for AIX, only Linux.
Matt
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Posted May 9th, 2017 08:00
thanks - that makes sense
I would suggest to look at using Perl then - seems to be easier to deal with REST than curl
I think we do have Perl examples somewhere
other option would be to ssh into the SP and use the UEMCLI there
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Posted January 9th, 2020 06:00
@savvyP wrote:
Please share your c# code
This thread - besides being over 2 years old - is about using curl and not C#
TiborSymm96
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Posted August 7th, 2020 14:00
Could you write result command line for curl with -L option and response from Unity ?
CrazyHorseGuy
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Posted October 11th, 2021 20:00
After another tweak of the user account, and using -L in the curl command, I keep getting a whole bunch of 302's getting returned. Not sure whats happening here???
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 03:40:22 GMT
< Server: Apache
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains;
< Set-Cookie: MOD_AUTH_CAS_S=aed4093f7bee0d2ead066509f5caa0ada3046770;Secure;Path=/; HttpOnly
< Location: https:// /api
< Content-Length: 209
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<
* Ignoring the response-body
* Connection #0 to host left intact
* Maximum (50) redirects followed
curl: (47) Maximum (50) redirects followed
mattdulson
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Posted May 8th, 2017 01:00
Thanks Greg, provided I tell curl to write a cookie, with the -L option I'm now getting a good response, and if I then tell curl to use this cookie for subsequent commands I don't need to use the "-H "Authorization:Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" option so I can get on with my automation - many thanks.
Matt