# New URI module from Romeo Theriault **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 16, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370 "2013-02-16T23:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/1 "2013-02-16T23:50:27Z")
Romeo Theriault wrote an EXCELLENT module for interacting with web services, and I've pushed it, and the docs on it are now up on the docsite. It's called "uri". Unfortunately the examples kind of ate it when using our docsite module formatter (produced some weird markup), so there aren't a lot of examples online yet. You should try it out anyway. It can be used in combination with "fail" and "register" and "when" and the like to do really basic tests for web services, and it can even log into forms, use register to save a cookie, and then submit other requests. You can even use it submit JIRA tickets. (Actually what I am thinking is eventually we start including more examples in the examples directory, and the docsite can just link to them). Check it out! -Michael ---
**Author:** ![Romeo\_Theriault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Romeo\_Theriault](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Romeo_Theriault)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/2 "2013-02-17T00:51:05Z")
Thanks Michael! Until we get the examples formatting straightened out I figured I’d post the examples they will show here so people can get a taste of how it works: ```auto # Check that you can connect to a page and it returns a status 200" action: uri url=[http://www.awesome.com](http://www.awesome.com) method=GET" # Check that a page returns a status 200 and fail if the word AWESOME is not in the page contents. ``` ```auto action: uri url=[http://www.awesome.com](http://www.awesome.com) method=GET return_content=yes register: webpage action: fail when_string: '"AWESOME" not in "${webpage.content}"' # "Create a JIRA issue." action: uri url=[https://your.jira.server.com/rest/api/2/issue/](https://your.jira.server.com/rest/api/2/issue/) method=POST user=your_username password=your_pass body='$FILE(issue.json)' force_basic_auth=yes status_code=201 HEADER_Content-Type="application/json" # Login to a form based webpage, then use the cookie that got returned to access the app in later tasks. action: uri url=[https://your.form.based.auth.app.com/index.php](https://your.form.based.auth.app.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 action: uri url=[https://your.form.based.auth.app.com/dashboard.php](https://your.form.based.auth.app.com/dashboard.php) method=GET return_content=yes HEADER_Cookie="${login.set_cookie}" ``` ```auto ``` ---
**Author:** ![Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein1)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/3 "2013-02-17T00:56:57Z")
Romeo: Which machine are the requests made from, the remote host or the local machine that runs Ansible? Lorin ---
**Author:** ![Romeo\_Theriault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Romeo\_Theriault](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Romeo_Theriault)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/4 "2013-02-17T01:00:51Z")
The remote machine unless you specify the task as a 'delegate\_to' or 'local\_action' type task. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/5 "2013-02-17T01:01:06Z")
> Which machine are the requests made from, the remote host or the local > machine that runs Ansible? There is no connection plugin involved. If you use local\_action, they are local, if not, they are not. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/6 "2013-02-17T01:02:38Z")
> Thanks Michael! > > Until we get the examples formatting straightened out I figured I'd post the > examples they will show here so people can get a taste of how it works: Thanks, I think "make docs" were fine but it was evident issues came up with "make webdocs" when they produced weirdness in the rst files that Sphinx did not like. If you want to try to fix those, that would be great, and I'll take them. I am herding too many other random things 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Romeo\_Theriault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Romeo\_Theriault](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Romeo_Theriault)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/7 "2013-02-17T01:05:32Z")
Thanks for the pointer and absolutely, I'll work on getting it straightened out this weekend and sending a PR. Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![Edgars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Edgars](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Edgars)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/8 "2013-10-07T11:07:36Z")
Hi Is it possible to define two status\_codes? For instance I have webpage which can return status code 200 or status code 301 and both are ok. How can i tell uri module to accept both? thanks Edgars svētdiena, 2013. gada 17. februāris 00:50:27 UTC+1, Michael DeHaan rakstīja: ---
**Author:** ![Edgars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Edgars](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Edgars)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/9 "2013-10-07T11:38:09Z")
PR#4383 Edgars svētdiena, 2013. gada 17. februāris 00:50:27 UTC+1, Michael DeHaan rakstīja: ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Maslov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ab992/32.png) [@Nick\_Maslov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nick_Maslov)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/10 "2013-10-08T13:17:20Z")
Hi, Can someone point me to a way of using this module with, say Openstack Keystone? I sending my login/password to IP:35357 of Keystone, get token. Question is - how can I cut token from the responce JSON, and assign it to a variable? Cheers, NM ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/11 "2013-10-08T15:07:01Z")
If you run ansible-playbook with -v you will see what modules return. You would then use the “register” statement to assign to a variable. ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Maslov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ab992/32.png) [@Nick\_Maslov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nick_Maslov)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/12 "2013-10-09T10:01:56Z")
Hi That`s exactly what I do now, thanks Michael. I have a small issue, however. - name: Test...   shell: uname -a   register: testvar   tags:     - testvar - name: Test 1...   shell: touch /tmp/testout   tags:     - testvar - name: Test 2...   shell: echo {{ testvar.stdout\_lines }} \> /tmp/testout   tags:     - testvar # cat testout [uLinux ctrl01-001 3.8.0-31-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 10 20:03:44 UTC 2013 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux] How can I get rid of those [u ...] braces? Thanks, NM ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/13 "2013-10-09T13:55:10Z")
stdout\_lines is an array, so it’s printing them as an array. I would be more inclined to save the result to a file locally if you really wanted to do that, but I’d like to ask what the root use case actually is, as there are better ways to model this sort of thing in almost all cases than going through intermediate files. Help me understand a bit what the real world scenario is? ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Maslov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ab992/32.png) [@Nick\_Maslov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nick_Maslov)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/14 "2013-10-10T12:04:18Z")
Hi, Well, usecase was rather simple - I needed to install Openstack`s Cinder with Ceph backend, and that required issuing commands that respond with hasg keys on STDOUT. Idea was to capture this output as variable and use it in consequent libvirt commands. But I managed to route it to file and read from it. Thanks, NM ---
**Author:** ![bryan\_hunt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@bryan\_hunt1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bryan_hunt1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/15 "2014-03-21T14:55:10Z")
I have this same issue when using it to create riak-cs admin users. riak-cs will return either 201 or 409 when sending a PUT request, never a 200. Unfortunately 201 triggers module failure, as 200 is what it expects. riak\_cs | FAILED **…** “msg”: “Status code was not 200”, I can work around this, but it’s going to be ugly. ---
**Author:** ![bryan\_hunt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@bryan\_hunt1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bryan_hunt1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/16 "2014-03-21T14:56:10Z")
I have this same issue when using it to create riak-cs admin users. riak-cs will return either 201 or 409 when sending a PUT request, never a 200. Unfortunately 201 triggers module failure, as 200 is what it expects. riak\_cs | FAILED **…** “msg”: “Status code was not 200”, ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/17 "2014-03-21T15:03:01Z")
There’s a status\_code option you can send. [http://docs.ansible.com/uri\_module.html](http://docs.ansible.com/uri_module.html) ---
**Author:** ![bryan\_hunt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@bryan\_hunt1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bryan_hunt1)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/18 "2014-03-21T16:38:46Z")
Yes, but there are two valid results, either 409 or 201. ---
**Author:** ![Romeo\_Theriault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Romeo\_Theriault](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Romeo_Theriault)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/19 "2014-03-21T17:45:45Z")
You may want to check out this pull request: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/4383/files](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/4383/files) and possibly try resubmitting it the suggested fixes. This would allow you to specify more than one status\_code. If you can't get to it I may be able to this weekend. Romeo ---
**Author:** ![bryan\_hunt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@bryan\_hunt1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bryan_hunt1)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370/20 "2014-03-24T13:55:38Z")
Thanks Romeo, I have recreated a pull request. [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6649](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6649) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-uri-module-from-romeo-theriault/12370.md?page=2)