Http Request Plugin for Jenkins

This plugin sends a HTTP/HTTPS request to a user speficied URL.

Features

The following features are available in both Pipeline and traditional project types:

• Programmable HTTP method: GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, or HEAD
• Programmable range of expected response codes (a response code outside the range fails the build)
• Supports Basic Authentication (see global configuration)
• Supports From Authentication (see global configuration)
• You can specify a string that must be present in the response (if the string is not present, the build fails)
• You can set a connection timeout limit (build fails if timeout is exceeded)
• You can set an "Accept" header
• You can set a "Content-type" header

Basic plugin features

The following features are only present in the non-pipeline version of the plugin. For the Pipeline version, these features are available programmatically.

• You can send the build parameters as URL query strings
• You can store the response to a file, built-in to the plugin

Pipeline features

In a Pipeline job, you have total control over how the url is formed. Suppose you have a build parameter called "param1", you can pass it to the HTTP request programmatically like so:

httpRequest "http://httpbin.org/response-headers?param1=${param1}"

If you wish to save the response to a file, you need to grab a workspace. You can do this with a node Pipeline step. For example:

def response = httpRequest "http://httpbin.org/response-headers?param1=${param1}"
node() {
    writeFile file: 'response.txt', text: response.content
}

You can access the response status code and content programmatically:

def response = httpRequest "http://httpbin.org/response-headers?param1=${param1}"
println('Status: '+response.status)
println('Response: '+response.content)

You may also send content in the body of the request, such as for a PATCH request:

// create payload
def patchOrg = """
    {"description": "$description"}
"""
def response = httpRequest acceptType: 'APPLICATION_JSON', contentType: 'APPLICATION_JSON', httpMode: 'PATCH', requestBody: patchOrg, url: "https://api.github.com/orgs/${orgName}"

For details on the Pipeline features, use the Pipeline snippet generator in the Pipeline job configuration.

Known limitations

• If Jenkins is restarted before the HTTP response comes back, the build will fail.