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uri

Interacts with HTTP and HTTPS web services.

Attributes

check_mode:
  support: none

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Type	Description
body		string	The body of the http request/response to the web service
force_basic_auth		boolean	Force the sending of the Basic authentication header upon initial request
headers		object	Add custom HTTP headers to a request in the format of a hash
method		string	The HTTP method of the request or response
return_content		boolean	Whether or not to return the body of the response as a “content” key in the dictionary result
status_code		array	A list of valid, numeric, HTTP status codes that signifies success of the request
timeout		integer	The socket level timeout in seconds
url	true	string	HTTP or HTTPS URL in the form (http	https)://host.domain[:port]/path
url_password		string	A password for the module to use for Basic authentication
url_username		string	A username for the module to use for Basic authentication
validate_certs		boolean	If false, SSL certificates will not be validated

Examples

- uri:
    url: http://www.example.com
    method: GET

- uri:
    url: https://httpbin.org/post
    method: POST
    body: '{"key": "value"}'
    headers:
      Content-Type: application/json
    status_code: [200, 201]

- uri:
    url: https://api.example.com/data
    method: GET
    return_content: true
  register: api_response

- uri:
    url: https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass
    method: GET
    url_username: user
    url_password: pass
    force_basic_auth: true