Test POST to your JDS

jds_post_test.py

#/usr/bin/python

''' if you don't have the requests module installed you'll need to do that
with either pip or easy_install'''
import os,requests

''' Setup server and auth data. This is the name of your JSS,
NOT the webdav share of the JDS. The JSS actually distributes the
data you upload to it across the JDS shares.
'''
server = 'https://pretendco.jamfcloud.com'
username = 'myusername'
password = 'mypassword'


# strip off trailing "/" characters from server
server = server.rstrip('/')

# construct the session elements
filename = '/tmp/test.txt'
resource = open(filename, 'a+rb')
basefname = os.path.basename(filename)
headers = {'DESTINATION': '1', 'OBJECT_ID': str(-1), 'FILE_TYPE':0, 'FILE_NAME': basefname}
jds_upload_url = '%s/dbfileupload' % server

# create the session and post
session = requests.session()
session.auth = (username, password)
response = session.post(url=jds_upload_url, data=resource, headers=headers)

# clean up, close our FD
resource.close()

# print out the response
print "Response: %s\n" % response
print "Response Text: %s\n" % response.text
print "Response Headers: %s\n" % response.headers
print "Response History: %s\n" % response.history