How come our Splunk 6.5 REST API calls with curl command are not working?

mukesh2019 — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:04:46 GMT

Hi,

I have the following REST call on a new 6.5 environment, and it's coming back with error

curl -X POST -u user:pass -k http://host.domain.com:8000/en-US/splunkd/services/search/jobs -d search="search *"

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
  <!--
  This is a static HTML string template to render errors.  To edit this template, see appserver/mrsparkle/lib/error.py.
  -->
   <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:splunk="http://www.splunk.com/xhtml-extensions/1.0" xml:lang="en">
   <head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/en-
  US/static/@EA9E3236A0BA7C4B28247E726C3C7D69A561FB26DFC20737824C1922C733518A/img/favicon.ico" />
 <title>Splunk cannot authenticate the request. CSRF validation failed. - Splunk</title>
 <style>
     *       { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
    body    { font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #333; padding: 20px; }
    p,pre   { margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: .8em; }
    .status { font-size: .7em; color: #999; margin-bottom: 1em; }
    .msg    { margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 1.4em;}
    pre     { font-family: Monaco,Courier Bold,Courier New,monospace; font-size: .7em;background-color: #eee;  padding: 5px;}
    #toggle { font-size: .8em; margin-bottom: 1em; }
    .byline { color: #555; }
    .byline span { font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4em; }
    hr      { height: 1px; background-color: #ccc; border: 0; margin: 20px 0 10px; }
    h2      { font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; }
    table   { border-collapse: collapse; }
    td      { padding: 2px; }
    td.k    { font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; }
    #debug  { display: none; }
    #crashes { margin: 20px 0; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #800; }
    #crashes dt { font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; }
    #crashes dd { white-space: pre; background: #f2f2f2; padding: 10px; margin-left: 20px; display: none; font: 10px Monaco,Courier Bold,Courier New,monospace; }
</style>
<script>
    function toggle(what) {
        what = document.getElementById(what);
        if (what.style.display == 'block') {
            what.style.display = 'none';
        } else {
            what.style.display = 'block';
        }
    }
</script>
</head>
<body>
   <p class="status">401 Unauthorized</p>
   <p class="homelink"><a href="/">Return to Splunk home page</a></p>
    <h1 class="msg">Splunk cannot authenticate the request. CSRF validation failed.</h1>
      <a href="/en-US/app/search/search?q=index%3D_internal%20host%3D%22xxx%22%20source%3D%2Aweb_service.log%20log_level%3DERROR%20requestid%3D5c1a06af277fdd04614990" target="_blank">View more information about your request (request ID = 5c1a06af277fdd04614990) in 
   Search</a>
    &lt;br/&gt;
   &lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;br/&gt;
 <hr />
 <p class="byline">You are using <span>xxxx.xxxxx.com:8000</span>, which is connected to splunkd 
<span>@59c8927def0f</span> at <span>https://127.0.0.1:8089</span> on <span>Wed Dec 19 03:51:59 2018</span>.</p>
 </body>
</html>

I'm able to get the session key with same credentials :-

curl -k http://host.domain.com:8000/en-US/splunkd/services/auth/login --data-urlencode username=user--data-urlencode password=pass

<response>
 <sessionKey>yATMHjpws9MOIGi5Rg9QvsoRR4EMncSGxlerJ9W6B....</sessionKey>
</response>

Please suggest. Apologies for the editing, I'm new at this.

Thanks

Re: How come our Splunk 6.5 REST API calls with curl command are not working?

whrg — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 12:33:56 GMT

Hello @mukesh2019,

You are using the wrong port.

Splunk's management port is 8089. You also need to use https instead of http.

Also remove the language modifier. It should look like this:

https://host.domain.com:8089/services/search/jobs

Check out the REST API documentation.

Re: How come our Splunk 6.5 REST API calls with curl command are not working?

mukesh2019 — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:12:47 GMT

Thanks a lot 🙂

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