Example: Changing a user account password with a query parameter
Here’s a sample POST request that uses the password query parameter to change the password for the system-level user account with the username lgreen to End321!. The request is made using a system-level user account that includes the security role.
Request with cURL command line
curl -k -i -d "{}" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -H "Authorization: HCP YWxscm9sZXM=:04EC9F614D89FF5C7126D32ACB448382" "https://admin.hcp.example.com:9090/mapi/userAccounts/lgreen ?password=End321!"
Request in Python using PycURL
import pycurl curl = pycurl.Curl() curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, ["Authorization: HCP \ YWxscm9sZXM=:04EC9F614D89FF5C7126D32ACB448382"]) curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://admin.hcp.example.com:9090/mapi/" + "userAccounts/lgreen?password=End321!") curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0) curl.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0) curl.setopt(pycurl.CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST") curl.perform() print curl.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE) curl.close()
Request headers
POST /mapi/userAccounts/?password=End321! HTTP/1.1 Host: admin.hcp.example.com:9090 Authorization: HCP YWxscm9sZXM=:04EC9F614D89FF5C7126D32ACB448382 Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: 2
Response headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/xml X-HCP-SoftwareVersion: 9.0.0.2 Content-Length: 0