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# uri – Interacts with webservices

- Synopsis

- Parameters

- Notes

- See Also

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## 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
--- | --- | ---
attributes string |  | The attributes the resulting file or directory should have. To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system. This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr. The `=` operator is assumed as default, otherwise `+` or `-` operators need to be included in the string. aliases: attr
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 | Choices: form-urlencoded json raw ← | 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 | Choices: all no none safe ← urllib2 yes | 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 | Choices: no ← yes | If `yes` do not get a cached copy. Alias `thirsty` has been deprecated and will be removed in 2.13. aliases: thirsty
force_basic_auth boolean | Choices: no ← yes | 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.
group string |  | Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown.
headers dictionary |  | 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.
mode string |  | The permissions the resulting file or directory should have. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must either add a leading zero so that Ansible's YAML parser knows it is an octal number (like `0644` or `01777`) or quote it (like `'644'` or `'1777'`) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Giving Ansible a number without following one of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results. As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, `u+rwx` or `u=rw,g=r,o=r`).
owner string |  | Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown.
remote_src boolean added in 2.7 | Choices: no ← yes | 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 | Choices: no ← yes | 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.
selevel string | Default: "s0" | The level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the `range`. When set to `_default`, it will use the `level` portion of the policy if available.
serole string |  | The role part of the SELinux file context. When set to `_default`, it will use the `role` portion of the policy if available.
setype string |  | The type part of the SELinux file context. When set to `_default`, it will use the `type` portion of the policy if available.
seuser string |  | The user part of the SELinux file context. By default it uses the `system` policy, where applicable. When set to `_default`, it will use the `user` portion of the policy if available.
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
unsafe_writes boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target file. By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted files, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner. This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes). IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption.
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 | Choices: no yes ← | If `no`, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.
validate_certs boolean | Choices: no yes ← | 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

    - name: Pause play until a URL is reachable from this host
      uri:
        url: "http://192.0.2.1/some/test"
        follow_redirects: none
        method: GET
      register: _result
      until: _result.status == 200
      retries: 720 # 720 * 5 seconds = 1hour (60*60/5)
      delay: 5 # Every 5 seconds

    # There are issues in a supporting Python library that is discussed in
    # https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/52705 where a proxy is defined
    # but you want to bypass proxy use on CIDR masks by using no_proxy
    - name: Work around a python issue that doesn't support no_proxy envvar
      uri:
        follow_redirects: none
        validate_certs: false
        timeout: 5
        url: "http://{{ ip_address }}:{{ port | default(80) }}"
      register: uri_data
      failed_when: false
      changed_when: false
      vars:
        ip_address: 192.0.2.1
      environment: |
          {
            {% for no_proxy in (lookup('env', 'no_proxy') | regex_replace('\s*,\s*', ' ') ).split() %}
              {% if no_proxy | regex_search('\/') and
                    no_proxy | ipaddr('net') != '' and
                    no_proxy | ipaddr('net') != false and
                    ip_address | ipaddr(no_proxy) is not none and
                    ip_address | ipaddr(no_proxy) != false %}
                'no_proxy': '{{ ip_address }}'
              {% elif no_proxy | regex_search(':') != '' and
                      no_proxy | regex_search(':') != false and
                      no_proxy == ip_address + ':' + (port | default(80)) %}
                'no_proxy': '{{ ip_address }}:{{ port | default(80) }}'
              {% elif no_proxy | ipaddr('host') != '' and
                      no_proxy | ipaddr('host') != false and
                      no_proxy == ip_address %}
                'no_proxy': '{{ ip_address }}'
              {% elif no_proxy | regex_search('^(\*|)\.') != '' and
                      no_proxy | regex_search('^(\*|)\.') != false and
                      no_proxy | regex_replace('\*', '') in ip_address %}
                'no_proxy': '{{ ip_address }}'
              {% endif %}
            {% endfor %}
          }

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
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 backward compatible 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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