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 Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.uri for easy linking to the module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same module name.

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

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

any

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

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 ansible-core 2.11

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

ciphers

list / elements=string

added in ansible-core 2.14

SSL/TLS Ciphers to use for the request.

When a list is provided, all ciphers are joined in order with :

See the OpenSSL Cipher List Format for more details.

The available ciphers is dependent on the Python and OpenSSL/LibreSSL versions.

client_cert

path

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

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.

decompress

boolean

added in ansible-core 2.14

Whether to attempt to decompress gzip content-encoded responses.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

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.

Choices:

  • "all": Will follow all redirects.

  • "no": (DEPRECATED, removed in 2.22) alias of none.

  • "none": Will not follow any redirects.

  • "safe" (default): Only redirects doing GET or HEAD requests will be followed.

  • "urllib2": Defer to urllib2 behavior (As of writing this follows HTTP redirects).

  • "yes": (DEPRECATED, removed in 2.22) alias of all.

force

boolean

If true do not get a cached copy.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

force_basic_auth

boolean

Force the sending of the Basic authentication header upon initial request.

When this setting is false, this module will first try an unauthenticated request, and when the server replies with an HTTP 401 error, it will submit the Basic authentication header.

When this setting is true, this module will immediately send a Basic authentication header on the first request.

Use this setting in any of the following scenarios:

You know the webservice endpoint always requires HTTP Basic authentication, and you want to speed up your requests by eliminating the first roundtrip.

The web service does not properly send an HTTP 401 error to your client, so Ansible’s HTTP library will not properly respond with HTTP credentials, and logins will fail.

The webservice bans or rate-limits clients that cause any HTTP 401 errors.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

group

string

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

When left unspecified, it uses the current group of the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.

headers

dictionary

Add custom HTTP headers to a request in the format of a YAML hash. As of Ansible 2.3 supplying Content-Type here will override the header generated by supplying json or form-urlencoded for body_format.

Default: {}

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

any

The permissions the resulting filesystem object should have.

For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must give Ansible enough information to parse them correctly. For consistent results, quote octal numbers (for example, '644' or '1777') so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number. Adding a leading zero (for example, 0755) works sometimes, but can fail in loops and some other circumstances.

Giving Ansible a number without following either 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.

When left unspecified, it uses the current user unless you are root, in which case it can preserve the previous ownership.

Specifying a numeric username will be assumed to be a user ID and not a username. Avoid numeric usernames to avoid this confusion.

remote_src

boolean

added in Ansible 2.7

If false, the module will search for the src on the controller node.

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

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

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:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

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 Ansible 2.7

Path to file to be submitted to the remote server.

Cannot be used with body.

Should be used with force_basic_auth to ensure success when the remote end sends a 401.

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 Ansible 2.8

Path to Unix domain socket to use for connection.

unredirected_headers

list / elements=string

added in ansible-core 2.12

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

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 objects, 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:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

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 ansible-core 2.11

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:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

use_netrc

boolean

added in ansible-core 2.14

Determining whether to use credentials from ~/.netrc file.

By default .netrc is used with Basic authentication headers.

When false, .netrc credentials are ignored.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

use_proxy

boolean

If false, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

validate_certs

boolean

If false, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to false used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Prior to 1.9.2 the code defaulted to false.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target, if not supported the action will be skipped.

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

Downloads files from HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP to node.

ansible.windows.win_uri

Interacts with webservices.

Examples

- name: Check that you can connect (GET) to a page and it returns a status 200
  ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: http://www.example.com

- name: Check that a page returns successfully but fail if the word AWESOME is not in the page contents
  ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: http://www.example.com
    return_content: true
  register: this
  failed_when: this is failed or "'AWESOME' not in this.content"

- name: Create a JIRA issue
  ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: https://your.jira.example.com/rest/api/2/issue/
    user: your_username
    password: your_pass
    method: POST
    body: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file','issue.json') }}"
    force_basic_auth: true
    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
  ansible.builtin.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
  ansible.builtin.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
  ansible.builtin.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
  ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: https://your.form.based.auth.example.com/dashboard.php
    method: GET
    return_content: true
    headers:
      Cookie: "{{ login.cookies_string }}"

- name: Queue build of a project in Jenkins
  ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: http://{{ jenkins.host }}/job/{{ jenkins.job }}/build?token={{ jenkins.token }}
    user: "{{ jenkins.user }}"
    password: "{{ jenkins.password }}"
    method: GET
    force_basic_auth: true
    status_code: 201

- name: POST from contents of local file
  ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: https://httpbin.org/post
    method: POST
    src: file.json

- name: POST from contents of remote file
  ansible.builtin.uri:
    url: https://httpbin.org/post
    method: POST
    src: /path/to/my/file.json
    remote_src: true

- name: Create workspaces in Log analytics Azure
  ansible.builtin.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
  ansible.builtin.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

- name: Provide SSL/TLS ciphers as a list
  uri:
    url: https://example.org
    ciphers:
      - '@SECLEVEL=2'
      - ECDH+AESGCM
      - ECDH+CHACHA20
      - ECDH+AES
      - DHE+AES
      - '!aNULL'
      - '!eNULL'
      - '!aDSS'
      - '!SHA1'
      - '!AESCCM'

- name: Provide SSL/TLS ciphers as an OpenSSL formatted cipher list
  uri:
    url: https://example.org
    ciphers: '@SECLEVEL=2:ECDH+AESGCM:ECDH+CHACHA20:ECDH+AES:DHE+AES:!aNULL:!eNULL:!aDSS:!SHA1:!AESCCM'

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

The cookie values placed in cookie jar.

Returned: on success

Sample: {"SESSIONID": "[SESSIONID]"}

cookies_string

string

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)