Hi James I got an email after a post I made on the jenkins mailing list: " Do you have CSRF protection enabled? If you do, you need to request a crumb from the server first, and include that as part of your POST request.
The instructions for how to do this need to be split out into its own page, but you can find it in the "CSRF Protection" section here: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Monitoring+external+jobs " I did indeed have CSRF protection enabled which might explain why I was seeing the problem and you weren't. (As it happens, this Jenkins instance is only available on an internal company network, so CSRF protection is probably a bit overkill). I haven't got an explanation as to why things still work if you use a GET request not POST - this would seem to be a hole in the CSRF protection?! Anyway this sort of explains what was going on. Tom -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Python Jenkins Developers, which is subscribed to Python Jenkins. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811044 Title: With authorization, build job doesn't work using POST request Status in Python API for Jenkins: Fix Released Bug description: I've just stumbled into this project and am trying to use your latest version from source control along with Jenkins version 1.420 (the Ubuntu package version). Using authorization, I get a 403 response to the request in build_job: return self.jenkins_open(urllib2.Request(self.build_job_url(name, parameters, token), '')) If I remove the empty data string (which I understand means the request is GET rather than POST), everything works fine. return self.jenkins_open(urllib2.Request(self.build_job_url(name, parameters, token))) Not really sure if the cause for this is a bug in Jenkins or a problem with your script? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-jenkins/+bug/811044/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~python-jenkins-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~python-jenkins-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
