How to do a simple post request using HTTP request plugin

steliosP

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Mar 18, 2016, 10:27:51 AM3/18/16

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I am trying to do a post request using HTTP plugin. One basic question: where do you put the content you want to post?I cannot find any related field. Please have a look at the screenshot of the plugin provided parameters

Martin d'Anjou

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Mar 21, 2016, 2:30:15 PM3/21/16

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I don't think there is a way to enter post data. According to the code, the post data is simply the list of parameters (which parameters I don't remember):
https://github.com/jenkinsci/http-request-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/jenkins/plugins/http_request/util/HttpClientUtil.java#L81

You can probably try to fill different configuration fields of the plugin and post to http://httpbin.com/post to see what happens.

Martin

steliosP

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Mar 23, 2016, 7:28:01 AM3/23/16

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Thanks Martin for the response. This is kind of odd, not to say ridiculous, since there are extremely rare cases where someone would POST something without a post body!

In any case, for future readers of this question, I would say that I bypassed this problem by using shell/batch script in Jenkins that contained a curl

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