splunk - python - requests.post Authentication error

vamsigurram — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 03:45:36 GMT

The below code is throwing error.

{"messages":[{"type":"WARN","text":"call not properly authenticated"}]}

r = requests.get(base_url+"/servicesNS/admin/search/auth/login", data={'username':username,'password':password}, verify=False)

sessionkey = minidom.parseString(r.text).getElementsByTagName('sessionKey')[0].firstChild.nodeValue

print ("Session Key:", sessionkey)

Output:

Session Key: im0t_JBlWSnQnaWwFCj016^q_QEYutHbpQMBGLEHlxOesSAVh6iQ0X8Y4tcoQR5a4lwr3I2ayDgBVNx0412THyMkON0iO6^Af_2DCYS1F8Eseo

I see Session Key here. No issues so far.

But when I pass the above session key, to the below requests.post, I see the error.

What am I doing wrong here?

url = base_url + "/services/search/jobs?output_mode=json"

headers = {

"content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",

"Authorization": "Splunk %s" % sessionkey,

}

payload = {

"search": "|rest /servicesNS/%s/search/directory" % kouser,

"count": 0

}

r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=payload, verify = False)

print(r.text)

{"messages":[{"type":"WARN","text":"call not properly authenticated"}]}

Is there anything wrong here?

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