escaping a backslash in a playbook

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Ter Alexander

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Feb 15, 2016, 10:31:31 AM2/15/16
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I have a playbook that calls get_url to download a file BUT the URL contains a backslash

I have tried double quotes, single quotes, \ escape sequences, etc. Have tried the many things found in Jinja2 and YAML escaping documents and nothing works. When I feed the URL through an ad hoc command, it downloads the file just fine.

Each time the playbook runs, the url contains a double backslash. How does one properly escape this?

Update: Below is the yml playbook file.

    ---
    - hosts: jboss
      remote_user: jboss
    tasks:
      - name: Get Ear file

Matt Martz

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Feb 15, 2016, 10:37:19 AM2/15/16
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I think you probably want to url encode that instead of just trying to escape those characters.


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Ter Alexander

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Feb 15, 2016, 11:31:33 AM2/15/16
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Thank you. I am still getting 404's on that URL when fed through the playbook. Was trying to exhaust all options before submitting a bug request. Any other ideas?

Christian Thiemann

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Feb 19, 2016, 3:30:03 PM2/19/16
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Are you using Ansible 2.0? If so, it might be related to this: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/14172
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