topic Re: unable to upload certificate to Panorama via post API in Automation/API Discussions

unable to upload certificate to Panorama via post API

Krasen.kolev — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:32:08 GMT

Hello,

I am restructuring my python script and with the new structure it is failing to upload certificate to Panorama.

I have a working API call:

requests.post("https://" + ip + "/api/?&type=import&category=certificate&certificate-name="+certName +"&format=pem&key=" + panapikey, files=file, verify=False)

My new structure looks like this:

class Panorama:

def __makeapi_request(self, url, data="", files=""😞

try:

response = requests.post(url, data, files, verify=False, timeout=10)

response.raise_for_status()

except requests.exceptions.ConnectTimeout as err:

print("connection error")

exit(1)

except requests.HTTPError as err:

self.error = err

# return self.error

except BaseException:

dom = ET.fromstring(response.content)

self.error = dom.find('.//msg').text

# return self.error

else:

self.response_xml = response.content

self.response_httpcode = response.status_code

# return self.response_xml

def import_cert(self, certName😞

files = {"file": open(certName, "rb")}

url = f"https://{self.ip}/api/?"

params = {"type":"import","category":"certificate","certificate-name":certName,"format":"pem", "key": self.panapikey}

self.__makeapi_request(url, files=files, data=params)

When I run import_cer(certName) I am always getting the error bellow:
<response status = 'error' code = '400'><result><msg>No file uploaded</msg></result></response>

I am copy/pasting the values from the working API call, so there should be no typos, also I am testing the import with the same certificate and the same certificate variable.

Can someone advise what I am doing wrong ?

Re: unable to upload certificate to Panorama via post API

JimmyHolland — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:53:31 GMT

Hi @Krasen.kolev, I was able to get the code working with changing

response = requests.post(url, data, files, verify=False, timeout=10)

response = requests.post(url, data=data, files=files, verify=False, timeout=10)

although there may be other/better ways to modify the code.

Hope that helps!

Re: unable to upload certificate to Panorama via post API

Krasen.kolev — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:16:18 GMT

Hi @JimmyHolland,

Thanks for your reply!

My issue is that when I use directly the post request, everything is working fine. However, I am modifying my code to start using the private function "__makeapi_request".

so when I call function import_cert(certName), which in turn is calling __makeapi_request(url, files=files, data=params) I get the error:
"<response status = 'error' code = '400'><result><msg>No file uploaded</msg></result></response>".

To me it seems that when I use the private function(__makeapi_request), Panorama does not take into account the provided file.

I tried multiple different variations to pass the data, but all of them resulted with the error above.

Re: unable to upload certificate to Panorama via post API

JimmyHolland — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:27:40 GMT

Yes, the modification I mentioned is within the __makeapi_request function's code

Here is my test of the code: https://github.com/jamesholland-uk/playground/blob/main/python/upload-cert-to-panorama.py

Re: unable to upload certificate to Panorama via post API

Krasen.kolev — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:29:58 GMT

Sorry, I didn't realized it.

Just tested it and it is working fine! Thanks for the help!