curl: (6) Could not resolve host: POST; Unknown error

Question

I have shell script to run from Jenkins. First step generates token. But when executed from Jenkins, it gives connection error

Jenkins here is Linux server

Command:

curl -w -X POST $URL -H Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded -H Content-Length:1045 -H Authorization:OAuth2 --data '{"grant_type":"password", "username":"User","password":"pwd"}' --write-out token

Error:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: POST; Unknown error

100 88 0 0 0 88 0 0 --:--:-- 0:02:01 --:--:-- 0

100 88 0 0 0 88 0 0 --:--:-- 0:02:02 --:--:-- 0

100 88 0 0 0 88 0 0 --:--:-- 0:02:02 --:--:-- 0

curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer

Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure

Answer 1

You failed to provide a value with -w.

This means that -X is taken that value instead of being a switch in its own right.

That means that POST is not taken as the value to the -X switch, so it is taken as the URL instead.

Remove -w or pass it a value.