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The websnort API is currently implemented as a blocking synchronous HTTP POST. If you have a large ruleset defined for your instance or many concurrent requests, timeout issues could be a problem. An asynchronous job submission API is possible if there is enough interest.
| URL | Method | Description | Successful Response | Unsuccessful Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| /api/submit | POST | Accepts a multipart/form-data submission containing the pcap file to scan and returns a results json dictionary. |
{"apiversion": "version", "status": "Success", "filename": "filename" "filesize": bytes, "md5": "hexstring", "start": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:SS.sssssss", "duration": seconds, "analyses": [ {"status": "Success", "name": "configname", "module": "idsname", "version": "idsversion", "ruleset": "label", "duration": seconds, "alerts":[ {"source": "ipaddress", "destination": "ipaddress", "protocol": "protocol name", "classtype": "alert classificaiton", "sid": signature_id, "timestamp": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:SS.sssssss", "message": "alert description", "revision": signature_revision}]}, ]} |
{"apiversion": "version", "status": "Failed", "filename": "filename" "filesize": bytes, "md5": "hexstring", "start": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:SS.sssssss", "duration": seconds, "errors": ["Error description / details"] "analyses": []} |
$ curl -i --form file=@test.pcap http://localhost:8080/api/submit
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 02:52:50 GMT
Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.7.6
Content-Length: 1001
Content-Type: application/json
{
"status": "Success",
"errors": [],
"apiversion": "0.4",
"filename": "test.pcap",
"start": "2014-08-31T12:52:48.828358",
"filesize": 12373,
"duration": 2.134792,
"analyses": [
{
"status": "Success",
"name": "snort",
"alerts": [
{
"source": "10.1.1.132:58650",
"classtype": "Detection of a Network Scan",
"protocol": "UDP",
"sid": 1917,
"timestamp": "2014-01-28T21:26:04.885446",
"message": "SCAN UPnP service discover attempt",
"destination": "239.255.255.250:1900",
"revision": 6
}
],
"module": "snort",
"version": "2.9.6.0 GRE (Build 47)",
"ruleset": "community",
"duration": 2.131043
}
],
"md5": "22bd2cfbdea14676ef4211e539cbb535"
}