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REST api code failing.

MK3
Explorer

Hello,

I ran the following code -

from __future__ import print_function
import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
import httplib2
from xml.dom import minidom

baseurl = '<url>'
userName = '<username>'
password = '<password>'

searchQuery = <query>

# Authenticate with server.
# Disable SSL cert validation. Splunk certs are self-signed.
serverContent = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True).request(baseurl + '/services/auth/login',
    'POST', headers={}, body=urllib.parse.urlencode({'username':userName, 'password':password}))[1]

sessionKey = minidom.parseString(serverContent).getElementsByTagName('sessionKey')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue

# Remove leading and trailing whitespace from the search
searchQuery = searchQuery.strip()

# If the query doesn't already start with the 'search' operator or another
# generating command (e.g. "| inputcsv"), then prepend "search " to it.
if not (searchQuery.startswith('search') or searchQuery.startswith("|")):
    searchQuery = 'search ' + searchQuery
   
print(searchQuery)

# Run the search.
# Again, disable SSL cert validation.
print(httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True).request(baseurl + '/services/search/jobs','POST',
    headers={'Authorization': 'Splunk %s' % sessionKey},body=urllib.parse.urlencode({'search': searchQuery}))[1])

I get this error - "TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond"

Is my url format wrong?

Thanks

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hard to say without knowing your base url. The error 10060 means your code can't connect to the destination server. Either you specified a wrong machine to connect to or you're having some network issues. Can you connect manually to the API endpoint from the host you're running your code on?

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