[Freeipa-devel] Communicating with FreeIPA via curl

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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.

This doesn't download it, it points curl to the existing CA cert on the 
filesystem.

rob