Help needed with Sophos XG API

sorry, the forum seems to have messed up the request url, here is a unformatted one:

Lars,

first of all make sure you enabled your computer IP (where you are fetching API commands from) on XG inside Backup & Firmware > API > Allowed Host.

From a browser than you can for example ask for "users list":

https://192.168.1.254:4444/webconsole/APIController?reqxml=<Request><Login><Username>admin</Username><Password>passwordhere</Password></Login><Get><User></User></Get></Request>

Regards

Thanks for your Reply!

I checked it and the IP Is enabled.

and running your Query just gives me:

Lars,

the errors means that some errors exist in the request. Make sure to change the password, to use admin and to copy and past the url inside a notepad.

Regards

Luk,

i did as you said - to test if the password is correct, i used a invalid pass and got:

Authentication Failure

Although it made me think, so i took the original password and just added one letter and still got malformed, so it turns out it was the password string that was causing the problem. Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction :)

Luk,

i did as you said - to test if the password is correct, i used a invalid pass and got:

Authentication Failure

Although it made me think, so i took the original password and just added one letter and still got malformed, so it turns out it was the password string that was causing the problem. Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction :)

you need to encode the url before you post it

in php this would be 

urlencode($xml)