Python3 connection to SonicOS API using only urllib

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  Jaime SonicWall Employee

  July 30 Answer ✓

  Please give this a try.

  import urllib.request
  
  from base64 import b64encode
  
  from collections import OrderedDict
  
  import ssl
  
  
  
  # Replace these with your SonicOS API endpoint and credentials
  
  sonicos_api_url = "https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/api/sonicos/"
  
  username = "admin-user"
  
  password = "admin-password"
  
  
  # Encode the username and password for Basic Authentication
  
  credentials = f"{username}:{password}"
  
  encoded_credentials = b64encode(credentials.encode("utf-8")).decode("utf-8")
  
  
  # Set up the request with the necessary headers
  
  headers = {
  
      "Authorization": f"Basic {encoded_credentials}",
  
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
  
  }
  
  
  # Create a request object
  
  context = ssl._create_unverified_context()
  
  request = urllib.request.Request(sonicos_api_url + "auth", headers=headers, method='POST')
  
  
  # Send the request and get the response
  
  try:
  
      with urllib.request.urlopen(request, context=context) as response:
  
          response_data = response.read().decode('utf-8')
  
          print("Successfully authenticated!")
  
          print("Response data:", response_data)
  
  except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
  
      print(e)
  
      print(f"Failed to authenticate. Status code: {e.code}")
  
      print("Response:", e.read().decode('utf-8'))
  
  except urllib.error.URLError as e:
  
      print("Failed to connect to the server. Error:", e.reason)
  
  
  
  request = urllib.request.Request(sonicos_api_url + "version")
  
  try:
  
      with urllib.request.urlopen(request, context=context) as response:
  
          response_data = response.read().decode('utf-8')
  
          print("Response data:", response_data)
  
  except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
  
      print(e)
  
      print("Response:", e.read().decode('utf-8'))
  
  except urllib.error.URLError as e:
  
      print("Failed to connect to the server. Error:", e.reason)
  

  As an aside, there's probably methods of getting pip installed. Take a look at

  https://github.com/pypa/get-pip

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