[Freeipa-devel] Communicating with FreeIPA via curl

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:13:12 -0400
Adam Young <ayoung at redhat.com> wrote:

> The web UI uses  JSON RPC to talk to the server.  As I look at
> implement more and more functionality, I find I want to see the JSON
> messages much the same way that the ipa command line can show the
> XML-RPC messages.  A little trial and error and I got it working:
> 
> 
> curl -v  \
>           -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
>           -H "Accept:applicaton/json"\
>           --negotiate -u : \
>           --cacert /etc/ipa/ca.crt  \
>           -d
> "{\"method\":\"user_find\",\"params\":[[\"\"],{}],\"id\":0}"   \ -X
> POST       https://`hostname`/ipa/json

You can avoid escaping every single quote with single quotes:
'{"method":"user_find","params":[[""],{}],"id":0}'

Also the ca.crt is available via HTTP iIrc, you just have to download
it once.

> Here's the explanation if you want it.
> 
> http://adam.younglogic.com/?p=897

Nice post.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York