HCP System Management Help


Example: Deleting an empty directory

Here’s a sample HTTP DELETE request that deletes the directory named obsolete from the quarterly_rpts directory in the namespace.

Request with curl command line

curl -k -iX DELETE
    -H "Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"
   "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com/rest/quarterly_rpts/obsolete”

Request in Python using PycURL

import pycurl
curl = pycurl.Curl()
curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: HCP
  bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d"])
curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://finance.europe.hcp.example.com \
  /rest/quarterly_rpts/obsolete")
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
curl.setopt(pycurl.CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE")
curl.perform()
print curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE)
curl.close()

 

Request headers

DELETE /rest/quarterly_rpts/obsolete HTTP/1.1
Host:
finance.europe.hcp.example.com
Authorization: HCP bXl1c2Vy:3f3c6784e97531774380db177774ac8d

Response headers

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-HCP-ServicedBySystem: hcp.example.com
X-HCP-Time: 1334829227
Content-Length: 0
0

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