[chef] Re: REST API question: How to fetch file?

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Oct 8, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Roberto Leibman 
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 wrote:

> I need to fetch an attribute file from the chef service...
> 
> Using the REST API, I call
> 
> GET /organizations/NAME/cookbooks/NAME/VERSION
> 
> And among other things I get:
> 
> {
>          "name":"versions.rb",
>          "path":"attributes/versions.rb",
>          
> "url":"https://myserver:443/bookshelf/organization-3217b9e79830f0fa8747107257d4e50e/checksum-bec47221813e48f656813335fbf57677?AWSAccessKeyId=1d77956dc74704cfa99edc19d2f93bb7909ae802&Expires=1444350260&Signature=kNVJhVbKdSdXI5aLW6X7zS/wHw%3D";,
>          "checksum":"bec47221813e48f656813339fbf57677",
>          "specificity":"default"
>       }
> 
> I tried to fetch the file using the url given (either directly, or using 
> the same signature schema as other REST api calls), but it doesn't work, I 
> get a 403.
> 
> What is the meaning of the URL if it's not to fetch the file? How do I 
> fetch the file? Is there a different REST api call that will give me the 
> file directly (since I know everything else about it)

What are you trying to do? Attempting to manually re-implement cookbook 
downloads seems like a bad idea. Can you illustrate your use case?

--Noah

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