[chef] Re: Using remote_file resource within Chef 12 for pulling remote files from shared location to client side.

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Monday, December 15, 2014 at 11:40 AM, 

 
 wrote:

>  
> Hi guys,
>  
> Can you please provide me with the example on how to use headers attribute
> within remote_file Chef recipe?
>  
> Here what I have and it doesn't seem to work:
>  
> remote_file "c:\test_chef.txt" do
> source "file:////prodstore/Shares/Engineering/test_chef.txt"
> headers({"Cookies" => "user=kasjdhfak; pass=sdkjhf" })
> end
>  
Looks like it should be `Cookie` (with no ’s’). 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

The java cookbook temporarily used remote_file the way you are trying to 
(they reverted the change to be compatible with older chef versions, but 
AFAIK the code worked). You can look at their example here: 
https://github.com/agileorbit-cookbooks/java/blob/bc583dce88de391c1c749b7b74c7fda84aeeedf2/providers/ark.rb#L67-L71
  
>  
> What I basically need is to make chef-client (windows platform) to pull data
> from Windows shared repository. In order to not save all data on Chef 
> server.
>  
> Issue I met is that windows shared repo uses authentication and I need 
> ability
> to provide user/pass for getting anything from that source.
The logs on your server should be helpful for debugging, too.
  
> Thank you a lot in advance.  
> Much appreciated.
>  
> Regards,
> Taras.

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Daniel DeLeo