topic Re: GET VS POST in Automation/API Discussions https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/get-vs-post/m-p/4754#M115 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks, That did it</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 May 2013 23:45:19 GMT Leo_Kermes 2013-05-26T23:45:19Z GET VS POST https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/get-vs-post/m-p/4752#M113 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>So I am trying to use the API to upload a custom-url-category, and my problem is that I have exced the length restriction of a HTML GET, So I tried doing a HTML PUT.</P><P style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: #d12f1b;"><SPAN style="color: #000000;">curl --insecure --form </SPAN>"type=config"<SPAN style="color: #000000;"> --form </SPAN>"action=edit"<SPAN style="color: #000000;"> --form </SPAN>"xpath=$xpath"<SPAN style="color: #000000;"> --form </SPAN>"element=$element"<SPAN style="color: #000000;"> --form </SPAN>"key=$pkey"<SPAN style="color: #000000;"> </SPAN><SPAN>"</SPAN><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://$panorama/api/">https://$panorama/api/</A><SPAN>"</SPAN></P><P>But, I get 502 Bad Gateway - Does the PAN xml-api only GET??</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 May 2013 07:38:21 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/get-vs-post/m-p/4752#M113 Leo_Kermes 2013-05-26T07:38:21Z Re: GET VS POST https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/get-vs-post/m-p/4753#M114 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>you should be using --data and --data-urlencode vs. --form.&nbsp; URL-encode</P><P>everything except the key= parameter.</P><P></P><P><SPAN>also see </SPAN><A class="" href="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/message/16433#16433">https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/message/16433#16433</A><SPAN>.</SPAN></P><P>that will work with either the Perl or Python panxapi program.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 May 2013 16:39:46 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/get-vs-post/m-p/4753#M114 ksteves1 2013-05-26T16:39:46Z Re: GET VS POST https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/get-vs-post/m-p/4754#M115 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks, That did it</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 26 May 2013 23:45:19 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/automation-api-discussions/get-vs-post/m-p/4754#M115 Leo_Kermes 2013-05-26T23:45:19Z