Convert curl command to BIG-IP Monitor Send String

Eric,

I just tried your script on v11.4.1 and it worked perfectly. Thanks!!!

I'd like to say first that this is a great piece of code that has saved me a lot of headaches so thank you for creating it. The original script runs great in Python2 but had need for it to run natively in Python3 as the interpreter. This is a modified version that works in Python3.

    Code

import getopt
import sys
from urllib.parse import splithost, splittype

optlist, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'X:H:d:')
flat_optlist = dict(optlist)

method = flat_optlist.get('-X', 'GET')

(host, uri) = splithost(splittype(args[0])[1])
protocol = 'HTTP/1.1'

headers = ["%s %s %s" % (method, uri, protocol)]
headers.extend([h[1] for h in optlist if h[0] == '-H'])
if not fil`text`ter(lambda x: 'host:' in x.lower(), headers):
    headers.insert(1, 'Host: %s' % (host))

send_string = "\\r\\n".join(headers)
send_string += "\\r\\n\\r\\n"

if '-d' in flat_optlist:
    send_string += flat_optlist['-d'].replace('\n', '\\n')
send_string = send_string.replace("\"", "\\\"")
print("SEND STRING: " + send_string)

Awesome! Thank you for sharing.

Hi I tried this but health monitoring is showing down, Logs says its a malformed request

this is my curl command which works as expected:

curl -X POST -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'host: host.domain.com' -d '{"queryParam":"cleaning","start":"0","rows":"20","searchType":["ALL"],"facetSelection":["SC:catalogs"],"userRoles":[""]}'

here is the equivalent send string created using the script which is not working:

POST /globalSearch/basicSearch HTTP/1.1\r\ncontent-type: application/json\r\nhost: host.domain.com\r\n\r\n{\“queryParam\“:\“cleaning\“,\“start\“:\“0\“,\“rows\“:\“20\“,\“searchType\“:[\“ALL\“],\“facetSelection\“:[\“SC:catalogs\“],\“userRoles\“:[\“\”]}

Can anyone find out what the issue is?

I wonder whether your web server is expecting a content-length. Try

POST /globalSearch/basicSearch HTTP/1.1\r\ncontent-type: application/json\r\nhost: host.domain.com\r\nContent-Length: 120\r\n\r\n{\“queryParam\“:\“cleaning\“,\“start\“:\“0\“,\“rows\“:\“20\“,\“searchType\“:[\“ALL\“],\“facetSelection\“:[\“SC:catalogs\“],\“userRoles\“:[\“\”]}

no luck, does the braces need to be escaped?

In your curl example above was it http or https? Similar question about whether your monitor was configured to match the same protocol.

Curl is http and the protocol monitor is also http

Weird. It looks fine. tcpdump could verify whether any differences. Sending to the same port?

Also. What is the response size?