OK, folks—I think I figured a few things out here. Thank you to all of you who suggested using port 8089 instead of 8000. That was certainly part of the problem. The two other problems I've identified are: The ABC examples, at least (I don't know about the rest of the python SDK), don't seem to work under Python v2.7.10. When I tried running the c.py example (with port 8089) under Python v2.7.8, I was able to get it to work—it connects and returns the list of installed apps as expected. The a.py example, however, seems to have another problem. With the same login credentials, port, and in the same environment, it returns this error: (splunksnake)Bens-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ben$ python /Users/ben/Desktop/splunk-sdk-python-master\ 2/examples/abc/a.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/ben/Desktop/splunk-sdk-python-master 2/examples/abc/a.py", line 45, in sessionKey = ElementTree.XML(body).findtext("./sessionKey") File "/Users/ben/anaconda/envs/splunksnake/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1301, in XML return parser.close() File "/Users/ben/anaconda/envs/splunksnake/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1654, in close self._raiseerror(v) File "/Users/ben/anaconda/envs/splunksnake/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror raise err xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0 Using curl from the terminal, I can see the Splunk instance is returning a sessionKey, so perhaps there is an issue with the way that key is being handled. Anyway, thanks again for your help sorting this out! ... View more

I don't know—let me find out. Thank you for the suggestion! ... View more

OK, I tried port 8089—it still fails at line 38, but the error message is now: ssl.SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581) ... View more

Ah, OK. The port 8000 works for accessing the instance through the web interface. Should I use a different port for access via the Python SDK? ... View more

The rest of the file is as downloaded from the SDK for Splunk. Here's the file in its entirety, as used, except for the server/login credentials: # Copyright 2011-2014 Splunk, Inc. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"): you may # not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain # a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT # WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the # License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations # under the License. """Retrieves a list of installed apps from Splunk by making REST API calls using Python's httplib module.""" import httplib import urllib from xml.etree import ElementTree HOST = "54.xxx.xxx.xxx" PORT = 8000 USERNAME = "my-username" PASSWORD = "my-password" # Present credentials to Splunk and retrieve the session key connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection(HOST, PORT) body = urllib.urlencode({'username': USERNAME, 'password': PASSWORD}) headers = { 'Content-Type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", 'Content-Length': str(len(body)), 'Host': HOST, 'User-Agent': "a.py/1.0", 'Accept': "*/*" } try: connection.request("POST", "/services/auth/login", body, headers) response = connection.getresponse() finally: connection.close() if response.status != 200: raise Exception, "%d (%s)" % (response.status, response.reason) body = response.read() sessionKey = ElementTree.XML(body).findtext("./sessionKey") # Now make the request to Splunk for list of installed apps connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection(HOST, PORT) headers = { 'Content-Length': "0", 'Host': HOST, 'User-Agent': "a.py/1.0", 'Accept': "*/*", 'Authorization': "Splunk %s" % sessionKey, } try: connection.request("GET", "/services/apps/local", "", headers) response = connection.getresponse() finally: connection.close() if response.status != 200: raise Exception, "%d (%s)" % (response.status, response.reason) body = response.read() data = ElementTree.XML(body) apps = data.findall("{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry/{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}title") for app in apps: print app.text ... View more