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how about deleting multiple URL's at the same time?  I'd like to do something where I dynamically update a custom url category.  I'm currently thinking on 2 calls to the API - one to add URL's that need to be added, the other to delete the ones that need to be deleted.  I can currently populate a list with the following options: {'action': 'set', 'xpath': "/config/shared/profiles/custom-url-category/entry[@name='test']/list", 'type': 'config', 'key': 'RANDOM-LETTERS', 'element': '<member>www.apitest1.com</member><member>www.apitest2.com</member><member>www.apitest3.com</member>'} if I change the action from 'set' to 'delete', and element to 'element': '<member>www.apitest3.com</member>' it whacks the whole custom category If I change the action from 'set' to 'edit' (and use the same element as above - only www.apitest3.com) I get the following error: <response status="error" code="12"><msg><line>Edit breaks config validity</line></msg></response> ... View more

Awesome - thank you! after successful tests there I came up with a template for doing it in python (my preferred language).  Here's an example of that, this function creates a custom url category and returns the response given by the web server - in case anyone is interested in that. For debugging / testing it also prints out the URL that would have been passed to the API import urllib, urllib2    #cat_desc is a description of the url category    #cat_name is the name of the custom url category     def create_url_cat(self, cat_name, cat_desc, action='set'):         self.parameters = dict()         self.parameters['key'] = 'Y/Xt9o0IK8ISYNnzTF4oJ8SpTis7cYMKb2NiNniMuPUPutJN4CuDASu5ni79twT6'         self.parameters['type'] = 'config'         self.parameters['action'] = 'set'         self.url = ' https://panorama/api/ ?'         self.parameters['action'] = action         self.parameters['xpath'] = '/config/shared/profiles/custom-url-category/entry[@name=\''+ cat_name + '\']'         self.parameters['element'] = '<description>' + cat_desc + '</description>'         params = urllib.urlencode(self.parameters)         response = urllib2.urlopen(self.url, params)         print self.url + str(params)         return response.read() ... View more

Glad I could help...you wouldn't happen to know anything about using curl to make the api calls would you?  I'm struggling with a 'User Not Authorized' error ... View more

I was able to successfully make this work using the following URL (specific to my site...please excuse the personalized / non obfuscated naming) https://panorama/api/?type=config&action=set&xpath=/config/shared/profiles/custom-url-category/entry[@name='cully-api-test']/list&element= <member>www.apitest.com</member><member>www.apitest2.com</member><member>www.apitest3.com</member> I got some info about cli debug from the following thread that was very helpful https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/message/11766#11766 basically, the <list></list> tags seemed to be interfering with the /list in the URI (I think...) I'm not sure if this would be a supported method, however it did work Thanks Cully ... View more

I have also tried and received the same error... <response status =" error " code =" 12 " > <msg> <line> <![CDATA[ list -> list has unexpected text. ]]> </line> </msg> </response> ... View more