Plugin: httpapi

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Generic functionality

• Proxy support (Needed if delegate_to is no longer working...)
• Handle HTTP errors more gracefully (recovery)
• Generic facts support on first connection (could return system/version info, health, ...)
• Support both httpapi and local support using the same framework (module_utils)
• Flexible Cookie support (might need a more flexible interface)

Concerns

• Can we have documentation about the design and how it is intended to be extended ?
• How can we extend the httpapi interface without unknowingly breaking existing use-cases ?

Specific functionality per technology

ACI

See: #36100

• Cluster-support (testing health of nodes, using an active node)
• Support for signature-based authentication (this is not standard Client-Certificate authentication)
• URL construction and object-model needs to be tied in
• Ways to extend/update the query string (generic ?)
• Extracting error information from payload (generic ?)
• Handling of HTTP status codes differently (generic ?)

ACI MultiSite

AWS

Meraki

Tetration

UCS