Need help getting basic requests.post to work for HTTP Event Collector with Python

[voninski]

OK - This is starting to frustrate me.

I first tried the following command:

curl -k  http://10.10.XX.XX:8088/services/collector/event -H "Authorization: Splunk my_correct_token" -d '{"event": "does this thing work"}'

and it works correctly and the event is received. Cool!

Then I saw the following blog post on building HTTP Events with Python and while I could get the code to execute without error. I could not get the system to receive the event.

Breaking down the event to its most basic components in Python 2.7 I wrote the following code

import requests

requests.post('http://10.10.XX.XX:8088/services/collector/event', headers={'Authorization': 'Splunk my_correct_token}, data = {"event": "through python -- again - does this thing work"})
print "does this thing work"

And while the code runs without error I am not receiving the events in Splunk.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

[icrushservers · Accepted solution]

Here is my solution to the problem:

#!/usr/bin/python

import requests
import json

url='https://172.16.x.y:8088/services/collector/event'
authHeader = {'Authorization': 'Splunk super_sekrit'}
jsonDict = {"event": "through python -- again - does this thing work"}

r = requests.post(url, headers=authHeader, json=jsonDict, verify=False)
print r.text

[neeldesai1992]

But how can you pass this kind of authorization ('Splunk super_sekrit') if I am using the Java Splunk sdk ? I can't set a header over there. so How can I pass over there?

[voninski]

This works great. And i like the fact that it separates the components needed. Thank you!