XML User API (using wget)

[SilverTiger]

Hi everyone

customer requested me for User XML

The device is 5.0.4 and There is no need to middleway server

PAN 5.0.x can receive restAPI directly

I do not make program properly

so I thought that I utilzed wget software

My labtop enviroment is Windows 7

There is simple wget.exe[win] in internet site

https://172.16.0.1/api/?type=keygen&user=admin&password=admin

I received unique key in advance

wget --no-check-certificate "https://192.168.1.180/api/?type=user-id&action=set&key=LUFRPT0vc2VVYTA5VHZKaDZkUnBkTytVb2tUSGdBKzA9N... name="zero-200" ip="172.16.0.200" timeout="20"></entry></login></payload></uid-message>" --output-document=pan-cfg.xml

response message saved pan-cfg.xml

I check message;;

open xml file

I don't understand that mean

because,,

When I inserted url box in web-browsing

https://192.168.1.180/api/?type=user-id&action=set&key=LUFRPT0vc2VVYTA5VHZKaDZkUnBkTytVb2tUSGdBKzA9N... name="zero-200" ip="172.16.0.200" timeout="20"></entry></login></payload></uid-message>

success!! no error

syntax do not support in wget?

[/, <, " etc..] ---> reason?

Why is this?

How can i solve this problem?

lately I tested utilzed wget software that made download running-config.xml

no error!

[duncanks · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The problem is you have the URL wrapped in double quotes, but you also have double quotes within the URL, so wget sees the first double quote (just before zero-200) as the end of your message.  This is why the error from the Palo box is saying the end tags for payload and uid-message are not found.

To fix this you should just need to change each double quote in your URL for %22 (the encoded version) and it should work, e.g. (key shortened for ease of reading and changes in bold):

https://192.168.1.180/api/?type=user-id&action=set&key=LUFRPT0v09&vsys=vsys1&cmd=<uid-message><version>1.0</version><type>update</type><payload><login><entry name=%22zero-200%22 ip=%22172.16.0.200%22 timeout=%2220%22></entry></login></payload></uid-message>" --output-document=pan-cfg.xml

Really all of the spaces and angle brackets could do with encoding too, but it doesn't seem to be complaining about them, if you want to space is %20, < is %3c and > is %3e

Duncan

[SilverTiger]

WOW!!

Thank you so much,

I understand!!

I founded out ASCII Hex code

It seems that we need to use ASCII Code

So

Other languages(C, C++, Java etc)

Do Ones have to use ASCII Code?