ansible.builtin.uri module – Interacts with webservices

Note

This module is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short module name uri even without specifying the collections: keyword. However, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same module name.

New in version 1.1: of ansible.builtin

Synopsis

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

  • For Windows targets, use the ansible.windows.win_uri module instead.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

attributes

aliases: attr

string

added in 2.3 of ansible.builtin

The attributes the resulting filesystem object 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.

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)

If body_format is set to ‘form-multipart’ it will convert a dictionary into ‘multipart/form-multipart’ body. (Added in v2.10)

body_format

string

added in 2.0 of ansible.builtin

The serialization format of the body. When set to json, form-multipart, or form-urlencoded, encodes the body argument, if needed, and automatically sets the Content-Type header accordingly.

As of v2.3 it is possible to override the Content-Type header, when set to json or form-urlencoded via the headers option.

The ‘Content-Type’ header cannot be overridden when using form-multipart

form-urlencoded was added in v2.7.

form-multipart was added in v2.10.

Choices:

  • form-urlencoded

  • json

  • raw ← (default)

  • form-multipart

ca_path

path

added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin

PEM formatted file that contains a CA certificate to be used for validation

client_cert

path

added in 2.4 of ansible.builtin

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 of ansible.builtin

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.

Choices:

  • all

  • no

  • none

  • safe ← (default)

  • urllib2

  • yes

force

aliases: thirsty

boolean

If yes do not get a cached copy.

Alias thirsty has been deprecated and will be removed in 2.13.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

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.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

group

string

Name of the group that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to chown.

headers

dictionary

added in 2.1 of ansible.builtin

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

Header to identify as, generally appears in web server logs.

Default: “ansible-httpget”

method

string

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.

Default: “GET”

mode

raw

The permissions the resulting filesystem object 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).

If mode is not specified and the destination filesystem object does not exist, the default umask on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly created filesystem object.

If mode is not specified and the destination filesystem object does exist, the mode of the existing filesystem object will be used.

Specifying mode is the best way to ensure filesystem objects are created with the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details.

owner

string

Name of the user that should own the filesystem object, as would be fed to chown.

remote_src

boolean

added in 2.7 of ansible.builtin

If no, the module will search for the src on the controller node.

If yes, the module will search for the src on the managed (remote) node.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

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 no matter it succeeded or failed.

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.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

selevel

string

The level part of the SELinux filesystem object 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 filesystem object context.

When set to _default, it will use the role portion of the policy if available.

setype

string

The type part of the SELinux filesystem object context.

When set to _default, it will use the type portion of the policy if available.

seuser

string

The user part of the SELinux filesystem object 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 of ansible.builtin

Path to file to be submitted to the remote server.

Cannot be used with body.

status_code

list / elements=integer

A list of valid, numeric, HTTP status codes that signifies success of the request.

Default: [200]

timeout

integer

The socket level timeout in seconds

Default: 30

unix_socket

path

added in 2.8 of ansible.builtin

Path to Unix domain socket to use for connection

unredirected_headers

list / elements=string

added in 2.12 of ansible.builtin

A list of header names that will not be sent on subsequent redirected requests. This list is case insensitive. By default all headers will be redirected. In some cases it may be beneficial to list headers such as Authorization here to avoid potential credential exposure.

Default: []

unsafe_writes

boolean

added in 2.2 of ansible.builtin

Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem object.

By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target filesystem objecs, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted filesystem objects, 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 filesystem objects 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.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

url

string / required

HTTP or HTTPS URL in the form (http|https)://host.domain[:port]/path

url_password

aliases: password

string

A password for the module to use for Digest, Basic or WSSE authentication.

url_username

aliases: user

string

A username for the module to use for Digest, Basic or WSSE authentication.

use_gssapi

boolean

added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin

Use GSSAPI to perform the authentication, typically this is for Kerberos or Kerberos through Negotiate authentication.

Requires the Python library gssapi to be installed.

Credentials for GSSAPI can be specified with url_username/url_password or with the GSSAPI env var KRB5CCNAME that specified a custom Kerberos credential cache.

NTLM authentication is not supported even if the GSSAPI mech for NTLM has been installed.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

use_proxy

boolean

If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

validate_certs

boolean

added in 1.9.2 of ansible.builtin

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.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction withought modifying target

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode

platform

Platform: posix

Target OS/families that can be operated against

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 ansible.windows.win_uri module instead.

See Also

See also

ansible.builtin.get_url

The official documentation on the ansible.builtin.get_url module.

ansible.windows.win_uri

The official documentation on the ansible.windows.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: Upload a file via multipart/form-multipart
  uri:
    url: https://httpbin.org/post
    method: POST
    body_format: form-multipart
    body:
      file1:
        filename: /bin/true
        mime_type: application/octet-stream
      file2:
        content: text based file content
        filename: fake.txt
        mime_type: text/plain
      text_form_field: value

- 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.cookies_string }}"

- 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: Create workspaces in Log analytics Azure
  uri:
    url: https://www.mms.microsoft.com/Embedded/Api/ConfigDataSources/LogManagementData/Save
    method: POST
    body_format: json
    status_code: [200, 202]
    return_content: true
    headers:
      Content-Type: application/json
      x-ms-client-workspace-path: /subscriptions/{{ sub_id }}/resourcegroups/{{ res_group }}/providers/microsoft.operationalinsights/workspaces/{{ w_spaces }}
      x-ms-client-platform: ibiza
      x-ms-client-auth-token: "{{ token_az }}"
    body:

- 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

Description

content

string

The response body content.

Returned: status not in status_code or return_content is true

Sample: “{}”

cookies

dictionary

added in 2.4 of ansible.builtin

The cookie values placed in cookie jar.

Returned: on success

Sample: {“SESSIONID”: “[SESSIONID]”}

cookies_string

string

added in 2.6 of ansible.builtin

The value for future request Cookie headers.

Returned: on success

Sample: “SESSIONID=[SESSIONID]”

elapsed

integer

The number of seconds that elapsed while performing the download.

Returned: on success

Sample: 23

msg

string

The HTTP message from the request.

Returned: always

Sample: “OK (unknown bytes)”

path

string

destination file/path

Returned: dest is defined

Sample: “/path/to/file.txt”

redirected

boolean

Whether the request was redirected.

Returned: on success

Sample: false

status

integer

The HTTP status code from the request.

Returned: always

Sample: 200

url

string

The actual URL used for the request.

Returned: always

Sample:https://www.ansible.com/

Authors

  • Romeo Theriault (@romeotheriault)