Download file with ansible

There is no major difference between example1 and example2 except the value of the checksum option. Sometimes, we might need to cross the security layer like Basic Authentication Prompt before downloading the file. In those kinds of scenarios, it is important that we pass the credentials and get authenticated before downloading the file. So that you can cross the security layer and reach and download the file.

For testing, we have tweaked a simple Apache WebSite configuration to enable Basic Authentication Security for a specific file named "secure. These are the apache configuration directives we had to add in httpd. Hope this post helps. Read more Ansible articles here. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter For more practical videos and tutorials.

Show your Support! Buy me a Coffee. You can also download files and verify them using the sha checksum, as shown in the example playbook below:. In some cases, you may have a specified resource URL that can take longer to respond or is unavailable. This can cause the connection to close before the server responds, as the default timeout is usually 10 seconds.

The WinRM connection must be authenticated with CredSSP or become is used on the task if the certificate file is not password protected. When following a redirected URL, the Authorization header and any credentials set will be dropped and not redirected. If yes , will download the file every time and replace the file if the contents change. If no , will only download the file if it does not exist or the remote file has been modified more recently than the local file.

This works by sending an http HEAD request to retrieve last modified time of the requested resource, so for this to work, the remote web server must support HEAD requests. By default the authentication header is only sent when a webservice responses to an initial request with a status. Since some basic auth services do not properly send a , logins will fail. This should be a dictionary where the key is the header name and the value is the value for that header. Specify how many times the module will redirect a connection to an alternative URI before the connection fails.

Uses the current user's credentials when authenticating with a proxy host protected with NTLM , Kerberos , or Negotiate authentication. The module will only have access to the user's credentials if using become with a password, you are connecting with SSH using a password, or connecting with WinRM using CredSSP or Kerberos with delegation.

If not using become or a different auth method to the ones stated above, there will be no default credentials available and no proxy authentication will occur. The alias password is deprecated and will be removed on the major release after The alias user and username is deprecated and will be removed on the major release after Generally should be yes only for small local files.

Prior to 0. Since some basic auth services do not properly send a , logins will fail. This option forces the sending of the Basic authentication header upon initial request.

Mode the file or directory should be. Leaving off the leading zero will likely have unexpected results. As of version 1. Level part of the SELinux file context. User part of SELinux file context. Will default to system policy, if applicable. If a SHA checksum is passed to this parameter, the digest of the destination file will be calculated after it is downloaded to ensure its integrity and verify that the transfer completed successfully.

This option is deprecated. Use 'checksum'. Normally this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this.