import requests
from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(category=InsecureRequestWarning) 
import json
import time 

address = 'blah'

url = 'https://'+address+'/web_api/login'
headers = {"Content-Type" : "application/json"}
credentials = {"user" : "blah", "password" : "blah"}
data = json.dumps(credentials)
payload = requests.post(url=url, headers=headers, data=data, verify=False)
json_response = json.loads(payload.text)
sid = json_response['sid']
uid = json_response['uid']

print(json_response)
print(sid)
print(uid)

url = 'https://'+address+'/web_api/show-session'
headers = {"Content-Type" : "application/json" , "X-chkp-sid" : sid}
query = {"uid" : uid}
data = json.dumps(credentials)
payload = requests.post(url=url, headers=headers, data=data, verify=False)
json_response = json.loads(payload.text)

url = 'https://'+address+'/web_api/set-access-rule'
headers = {"Content-Type" : "application/json" , "X-chkp-sid" : sid}
newname = "name"
query = {"rule-number" : "35" , "layer" : "Exalogic Interface", "new-name" : newname }
data = json.dumps(query)
payload = requests.post(url=url, headers=headers, data=data, verify=False)

time.sleep(5)

url = 'https://'+address+'/web_api/publish'
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json", "X-chkp-sid": sid}
data = { }
json_data = json.dumps(data)
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json_data, verify = False)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())